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If there is one person that is super happy to hear the National Solar Jobs Census report was released, it is this guy!

Al Gore took to his blog and could not hide his excitement for what the new report's numbers are.

Here's what he wrote:

Tags: al, al gore, economy, environmental, former president of the united states, foundation, gores, industry, jobs, solar

You've got to be kidding us.

There is NO shame in the corporate world of greed. This is the most blatant abomination we've seen in a while, since the bonuses paid out during the bank bail-outs.

Hostess executives are going full-on super villain and requesting approval to hand out $1.8 million in bonuses to themselves… even though the company is in the process of liquidating and going under!

Tags: company, extreme, job, jobs, loss, manager, mean, millions, nation, office, time

We previously mentioned that police had released the names of the clients involved in the Zumba sex scandal.

Well one of the men on that list is a former mayor of South Portland, Maine!

Tags: ass, cops, embarrassing, jail, jobs, maine, mayor, men, names, police, prostitute, release, sad, scandal, sex, sex scandal, sued, zumba

Yeah right!

Chad Johnson has plead NOT GUILTY to a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from allegedly head butting his wife, Evelyn Lozada.

The charges were only filed 24 hours ago!

Johnson, however, somehow couldn't find the time to go to the courthouse himself (not having jobs is time consuming!), so his plea was entered in by his attorney, Adam Swickle.

Whatevs!

We'll just have to wait and see what happens!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: allegedly, attorney, butt, chad johnson, charge, court, evelyn lozada, guilty, house, job, jobs, mean, misdemeanor, time, wife

You feel that, environment??

That's the feeling you get when a huge city just straight up BANS the use of plastic bags!

L.A. loves you!

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and an array of environmental groups pleaded with the City Council to vote with the environment in mind — and it worked. They voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags over the next 12 months at an estimated 7,500 stores!

For the city, that means you should be stockpiling those cloth-reusable bags: there will be a four-month environmental review of the bag ban, and then an ordinance putting it into effect. Larger stores are then given six months to stop using plastic bags and smaller stores/markets will be put on a 12-month phase-out period.

Plus, you don't want to have to pay for paper bags, do you? Because retailers would be required to charge 10 cents per bag starting one year after plastic bag ban starts.

In other words, you have about 2 years to build a nice little collection of world-conscious reusable bags before they make you pay!

Of course, we totally feel for those earning a living for their families in the plastic bag industry — this can't be a very good sign.

Though, they do have some buffer to start looking for jobs if they think that they're in danger!

We think this is fab for the world, and should follow in the footsteps of San Jose, San Francisco, Long Beach, L.A., and dozens of other municipalities!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: beach, city, danger, environment, jobs, la, love, plastic, plastic bag ban, plastic bags, san francisco, the city, world

Beef Products Inc. (BPI) is the company that makes "pink slime."

BPI said it will be laying off 86 employees from its South Dakota corporate office because of a "campaign of misinformation."

This is their second round of layoffs since all the negative publicity surrounded its gross beef product.

The company and outside food-safety companies declare "pink slime" safe to eat, but it was just too gross for most people when they found out what it was actually made of.

Which is basically a bunch of yuck. Gross.

This round of layoffs is nothing compared to the initial 650 people who lost their jobs at three plants.

We feel really badly that people had to lose their jobs but we still feel like it's good that we know where our food is coming from and that the general public can cause real change.

Tags: beef, campaign, change, company, eat, employees, food, gross, jobs, lost, people, pink slime, product, products, safety, yuck

New York's four public university centers are planning to become national research facilities that will look into "smart energy."

Aside from creating literally hundreds of jobs, they will be looking into creating thinner solar panels (woo?) and phone batteries that never die! WOO!!

Tags: business, cell phone, economy, energy, job, jobs, million, new york, research, senate, university