This New York program has trained 1,700 workers for green jobs. And it’s just getting started

There’s a major labor shortage when it comes to transitioning to clean energy. BlocPower’s Civilian Climate Corps is training unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers to fill those roles. Before he joined the Civilian Climate Corps, Robert Clark assumed building and electric work was all low-skilled labor, akin to “working at McDonald’s,” he said. That was before he learned to install electric heat pumps, maintain electric vehicle charging stations, and perform 3D image modeling of...