Van Jones Resigns As Green Jobs Czar

Green jobs advocate Van Jones has resigned his position within the Obama administration, stating that a growing smear campaign by Republicans should not be allowed to weaken the administration’s work on clean energy and health care.

In a statement released early Sunday morning the special advisor for green jobs said: “I have been inundated with calls–from across the political spectrum–urging me to ’stay and fight’. But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past.”

In 2004, when Jones was the director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, he signed a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”

Read the complete article here:

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/18835

And some interesting commentary here:

http://greenbiz.com/blog/2009/09/07/smearing-van-jones