WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — America can boast only 500 green jobs in solar
electric power generation, but 886,000 green jobs in government — many for
passage of environmental laws, enforcement of environmental regulations, and
administration of environmental programs, according to the new count of green jobs
for 2011 released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this
week.

The new report shows that the number of green jobs in the economy grew from
3.2 million in 2010, the first year of data collected, to 3.4 million in 2011.
That’s an increase of one-tenth of a percent of the nation’s jobs, from 2.5% to
2.6%. marketwatch.com