Creating Hundreds of Thousands of Clean Energy Jobs in the American West

August 6, 2012 Washington, D.C. – Today, on the eve of the National Clean Energy Summit 5.0 in Las Vegas, the Center for American Progress released “The Vast Potential for Renewable Energy in the American West,” an analysis projecting that the federal lands in six western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah—could house [...]