WASHINGTON, DC - The national nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs released its latest quarterly clean energy jobs report on Thursday which showed showed nearly 10,500 clean energy and clean transportation jobs were announced nationwide between April and June, 2015.

The jobs were announced at nearly 40 projects across 22 states. North Carolina ranked fifth on the report with 700 clean jobs in the second quarter.

Texas was the top state with more than 2,100 jobs, most of which were tied to solar and wind projects. All of No. 2 Nevada’s 1,900 jobs were part of the new Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone.

Rounding out the to ten:

3.  California (1,200 jobs)
4.  Utah (800)
5.  North Carolina (700)
6.  Kansas (462)
7.  Arkansas (420)
8.  Colorado (400)
9.  Virginia (400)
10. Nebraska (365)

The total jobs number for Q2 is slightly higher than the first quarter of the year, but lower than the corresponding quarter last year. Partly due to declining materials costs, solar was once again the top sector with nearly 6,500 announced jobs. Nearly 2,800 jobs were announced in the wind industry, 450 in advanced vehicles, and almost 200 in the advanced biofuels industry.

The full report is available at www.cleanenergyworksforus.org.