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percent while overall jobs declined 2.2 percent in the statse between 1998 and according to new researcuh bythe . Ohio was part of a national trend that saw job growtjh in the clean energy economt outperforming overall job growth in 38 state and the District of Columbia betweeb 1998and 2007. jobs in the clean energy economy grew at a rateof 9.1 percent while total jobs grew by only 3.7 percen t over the same period. In 2007, there were more than 35,25p jobs in Ohio’s cleahn energy economy – about the same as at , the state’sa largest employer. Pew’s report is titlefd “The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businessea and Investments Across America.
” It attempts to present a cleare definition of the clean energy econom and conduct a count across all 50 states of the companies and venture capital investments thatsupply it. “Ohio’s cleanj energy sector has been a brigh spot in an otherwisedifficultt economy,” said Tom Bullock, Ohio representativer for the Pew Environment in a press release. He added that Ohio attractedd morethan $74 millioj in clean technology venture capital in the last thred years.