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5.3 million: A recent study conducted by Management Information Services, Inc., found that in 2005 the environmental industry nationwide generated more than 5.3 million jobs, $341 billion in sales, and $47 billion in tax revenues.

10: The environmental industry employs 10 times more workers than the pharmaceutical industry. It is bigger than the biggest fortune 500 company.

6.3 million: MISI forecasts that U.S. employment created directly and indirectly by environmental protection will reach 6.3 million jobs and $448 billion in real expenditures by 2015.

100 percent: Renewable energy creates twice as many jobs per unit of energy than traditional fossil fuel-based generating technologies.

$700 billion: The University of Tennessee found that America’s farms, forests, and ranches can play a significant role in reaching a national goal of 25 percent renewable energy generation by 2025. Renewable energy crops can provide more than $700 billion in economic activity and 5.1 million jobs in 2025, with most of this growth occurring in rural areas.

$14 billion: According to estimates by the Clean Tech Venture Network, U.S. “green technology” investment will reach at least $14 billion by 2010, and possibly as much as $19 billion. This will result in the creation of between 400,000 and 500,000 new jobs.

$2.4 billion: Venture capital has begun to pour into clean energy. In 2006, venture investments in clean energy technologies tripled, bringing that figure to $2.4 billion.

39 percent: Globally, the annual revenue for solar power, wind power, biofuels, and fuel cell companies rose to $55.4 billion in 2006 from $40 billion in 2005—a nearly 39 percent increase in one year. Market research firm Clean Edge forecasts that these four technologies alone will become a $226 billion market by 2016.

source: Center for American Progress