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Print Edition StoriesTuesday, February 3, 2009
Conn. governor authorizes green job growth
By Mass High Tech staff
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut has signed an executive order to grow the state’s green collar jobs, which she defines as both “white and blue collar jobs in green businesses.”
The order calls for identifying opportunities to create green jobs and and grow environmental industries. To do so, the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission is responsible for forming a Green Collar Jobs Council, which will includee industry representatives, along with the Connecticut departments of education, higher education, environmental protection, labor and economic and community development, as well as the energy workforce development consortium.
Other elements of Rell’s executive order include a collaboration between outside partners and the state community college system to get 320 students into eight new certificate programs in the next two years. The order also would implement funding to provide job training following the 21st Century Green Jobs Training Initiative; set aside up to 25 percent of federal stimulus funding for green projects; develop a “green transportation corridor” on U.S. Routes 91 and 95; and allocate grant money from the Small Manufacturers Competitiveness Fund to green energy projects.
In November, Rell doled out $50,000 each to Connecticut companies developing local biodeisel and biodeisel distribution facilities.
In 2006, she signed a climate change action plan calling for 20 percent of all energy used or sold in the state to come from renewable sources by 2020.
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