NASHUA – Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is promoting a plan that would cost taxpayers more than $1 million for every new “green” job created.

“This is the opportunity of the Green New Deal: a $10.7 trillion total investment in our clean economy that spurs 10.6 million green new jobs. And we’ll do it all together – with no community and no worker left behind,” Warren states of her strategy.

That means Warren wants to spend more than $1 million per job, all in the name of eliminating fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.

“My plans also call for expanded technical and trade school opportunities to create pathways into good jobs in the new clean energy economy that will not require a college degree. And my administration will create regional sector-specific training partnerships to help better align training with the local job market, leverage the community college system, and ensure that workers gain transferable skills,” Warren adds.

Though Warren’s plan may seem somewhat ambitious, all top-tier Democratic presidential candidate support some form of the Green New Deal. This includes national front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden.

“Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face,” states the candidate’s website.

U.S. House Resolution 109, introduced Feb. 7, “calls for the creation of a Green New Deal.”

The resolution states that “it is the duty of the federal government” to secure for all people of the U.S. clean air and water, climate and community resiliency, healthy food, and “access to nature.”

It also declares a mission of “guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States.”

Although these provisions are extremely popular with the Democratic base, they could be difficult to promote in the key Electoral College battlegrounds of Ohio and Pennsylvania. There, the Marcellus/Utica Shale oil and natural gas boom of the past decade has infused billions of dollars into the economy, including the creation or support of thousands of jobs.

Jobs in the oilfields of Ohio and Pennsylvania can come in the forms of:

• Building a drilling site;

• Working on a hydraulic fracturing (fracking) crew;

• Driving a truck;

• Installing pipelines; and

• Building restaurants, hotels or stores to service the workforce.

Nevertheless, when asked during last week’s Democratic debate in Los Angeles about his policies displacing those employed in the fossil fuel industry in favor of a “greener economy,” Biden said this may need to occur.

“The answer is yes. The answer is yes, because the opportunity, the opportunity, for those workers to transition to high-paying jobs is real,” Biden said.

“There are so many things we can do – and we have to make sure that we explain it to those people who are displaced that their skills are going to be needed for the new opportunities,” Biden added.

Although fracking has boosted the economies of states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, there are also concerns from those who live in the region about water, air, light and sound pollution.

For his part, Bernie Sanders of Vermont supports a $16.3 trillion version of the Green New Deal.

As a goal, Sanders’s website states he wants to, “Transform our energy system to 100% renewable energy and create 20 million jobs needed to solve the climate crisis.”

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