“Dirty” jobs can also be ‘green’
Posted by | Posted in Business News | Posted on 12-07-2011
But those jobs, it turns out, might be considered quite dirty. The group that will use the money, the Center for Working Families, will train 40 people to remove contaminants from homes, from asbestos to lead paint, and radon.
It’s not your typical “green job” — most people think of solar energy and wind turbines as green jobs — but cleaning up contaminants is as important for public health, said Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She said green jobs can be anything that “protects people’s health from pollution” and help people “raise their families free of health risks.”
For Khari Hunt, the grant will mean his group can train people in the Mechanicsville and Pittsburgh neighborhoods in Atlanta in environmental clean-up. Later, the trainees can clean up homes nearby using other grants and private demand.
Asbestos and lead removal, said Hunt, “is a skill, and one for which people pay handsomely,” he said.
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