Biden is betting that union workers whose jobs are threatened by the energy transition will eventually find a place in the green economy, but that's a hard sell in union-friendly Philadelphia. About a dozen union workers in the Philadelphia region Reuters spoke to questioned whether the new industries can produce a similar number of jobs at the same high wage scale. Overall energy jobs in the U.S. grew 3.8% in 2022, to more than 8.1 million, led by fast growth in clean energy jobs, the Department of Energy said in June. Clean energy jobs, a wide category including wind and solar power, nuclear, and grid technologies and battery storage, made up 3.1 million of those. "I believe Biden when he says that green energy jobs will be union, the question is just how many jobs will there be," Eiding said.

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