Environmental Defense Fund: How Capping Carbon Will Create Jobs and Lift the Economy

“A new energy economy is going to be part of what creates the millions of new jobs,” President Barack Obama said recently.

That’s because a climate bill, once passed, will act like the starting gun in a business innovation race. To illustrate how capping carbon pollution will stimulate the economy and create jobs, EDF designed this graphic (see below the jump).

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This graphic is designed to be easy for reporters, editors, and bloggers around the country to use. We’re hoping it will help them explain the concept to readers, even while they’re busy covering the political story of the Waxman-Markey Bill working its way through Congress.

Please post or link to it from wherever you want to. (We also have a bigger web-friendly version and files meant for printing.)

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