Cry Wolf Blog

By Laurie Johnson. Posted on the Natural Resources Defense Council's Switchboard blog. June 18, 2009. 

Over three decades of experience with environmental regulation show that investments in environmental protection, coupled with GDP growth, led to an increase in jobs that were orders of magnitude larger than any job losses caused by environmental requirements. The dire job loss predictions by industry simply never came to pass. Instead, tens of thousands of new jobs were created every year, much more than the job reductions per year that various government agencies and academic analyses found after the fact, in only a few sectors.[1] We detail the data further below.

Wind the tape back to before environmental regulations were passed, and we see that the opponents of the day, just like today's climate obstructionists, made dire job loss forecasts. They never came true.

By Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen. Posted on Huffington Post. May 11, 2009.

In its first 100 days, the Obama administration did more to address global warming and the environmental crisis than the Bush administration did in eight years.