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Groups want Environment on the Debate Agenda

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Thursday, September 27, 2012   

RICHMOND, Va. - With less than a week until the first presidential debate, several groups have banded together to make sure the issue of climate change will be on the moderator's list of questions.

A top concern for many voters is the economy and jobs. Mike Palamuso, senior vice president for communications at the League of Conservation Voters, says fighting climate change is an economic issue, and voters deserve to know where both candidates stand on it.

"Solving the climate crisis means ushering in a new clean-energy economy. It means ending our dependence on dirty sources of energy and bringing good-paying jobs back to the U.S."

Palamuso says it will be important for voters to see if the candidates want to support big energy companies and the status quo or move forward and fight carbon pollution and work to create clean energy that is sustainable.

"We're already starting to see the impacts of climate change; the types of weather extremes that scientists have predicted we would see. It's real, it's happening now, and these are only going to get worse if we fail to address climate change."

The League of Conservation Voters is one of six national nonprofit organizations that plan to drop off more than 120,000 petitions to Jim Lehrer, the moderator of the first presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 3 in Denver. The focus is on domestic policy and will be divided into six 15-minute segments.

Information about the petition is at lcv.org.


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