For the past five years, the solar industry in the United States has boomed, becoming a reliable employment engine and giving hope to policymakers seeking to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Most of those jobs are at companies that install solar panels on rooftops and build large solar farms for utilities and big corporations. Solar Foundation This chart — from the nonprofit Solar Foundation’s National Solar Jobs Census report last year — counted any job that required 50 percent or more of a worker’s time to be devoted to solar energy. Instead, Trump approved a 30 percent fee on all imported solar panels, decreasing by 5 percent per year over four years. The Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group, said the tariffs would lead to 23,000 job losses this year alone in both the solar installation and manufacturing sectors.

Source: Huffington Post January 22, 2018 22:18 UTC