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study said Florida was one of 38 states and the Districtt of Columbia in which job growth in the cleab energy economy outperformed overalljob gains. Pew define d a clean energy economy as one that generates businesses and investments while expanding cleanenergyt production, increasing energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste and pollution, and conserving watedr and other natural resources. In Florida, there was a 7.9 percenty increase in clean energy jobsfrom 28,84t5 jobs in 1998 to 31,122 jobs in 2007.
The numbers are a hard countf ofactual jobs, Pew said in a and range from jobs as diverse as plumbers, administrative assistants, construction workers, machine marketing consultants and teachersw with annual incomes ranging from $21,000 to $111,000. Nationally, jobs in the clea energy industry grew at a rateof 9.1 percent betweebn 1998 and 2007, while total jobs grew by 3.7 percent in the same the report says. Florida had 3,831 cleanj energy businesses at the end of a 22.
7 percent increase from 3,121 businesses in 1998, the report There were 236 clean energty patents in Florida between 1999 and 2008, and ventured capital firms invested $117 in clean technologyu in Florida between 2006 and 2008.