skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Friday, March 29, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Survey: Over Half of VA Small Businesses Support Clean Energy Action

play audio
Play

Friday, July 16, 2010   

RICHMOND, Va. - Small businesses are said to be the engine that keeps the U.S. economy running. A new survey that asked over 700 of them in Virginia and the Carolinas a series of questions regarding clean energy, and the legislation that is kicking around the U.S. Senate, shows just over half of respondents in Virginia believe that clean energy is the right way to get business and job creation back on track.

Dustin Engalls, who is founder and president of Public Policy Polling, the group that conducted the study, says the smaller the business, the higher the approval.

"Virginia businesses with annual revenues under $250,000 give an even higher level of support to the bill. 55 percent say they favor it, only 42 percent dissent."

Another finding: 26 percent believe the U.S. should continue subsidizing oil companies.

Eric Engler, a member of the Virginia Main Street Alliance and the owner of Velocity Motorcycles in Richmond, sees clean energy as the future for businesses like his.

"The vehicles that I sell average at least 40 miles per gallon; our zero electric motorcycle costs less than a penny per mile to operate and has no emissions."

Engler says that, with simple incentives from the government, a whole new economy could emerge.

"If the government would provide grant funds for electric vehicle charging points for our commuters using electric cars and electric motorcycles, just think how many new businesses and new jobs would immediately be created, without any mandates or new bureaucracies."

Another finding of the survey: 26 percent believe the U.S. should continue subsidizing oil companies.

Many opponents of clean energy legislation say that it would be too costly for larger businesses and would be a job killer.

The survey is at www.smallbusinessmajority.org. The poll was conducted July 7-10 in Virginia, North and South Carolina. A total of 711 businesses were surveyed, with a total of 292 of those in Virgiia.




get more stories like this via email

more stories
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the popular abortion pill Mifepristone and will weigh in on whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was correct in how it can be dosed and prescribed. (Ascannio/Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Missouri residents are worried about future access to birth control. The latest survey from The Right Time, an initiative based in Missouri…


Social Issues

play sound

Wisconsin children from low-income families are now on track to get nutritious foods over the summer. Federal officials have approved the Badger …

Social Issues

play sound

Almost 2,900 people are unsheltered on any given night in the Beehive State. Gov. Spencer Cox is celebrating signing nine bills he says are geared …


The U.S. teaching workforce remains primarily white while the percentage of Black teachers has declined. However, the percentage of Asian and Latinx teachers is rising.(WavebreakMediaMicro/Adobestock)

Social Issues

play sound

Education advocates are calling on lawmakers to increase funding for programs to combat the teacher shortage. Around 37% of schools nationwide …

Environment

play sound

New York's Legislature is considering a bill to get clean-energy projects connected to the grid faster. It's called the RAPID Act, for "Renewable …

Social Issues

play sound

Michigan recently implemented a significant juvenile justice reform package following recommendations from a task force made up of prosecutors…

Health and Wellness

play sound

Medicare and Medicaid are key sources of health coverage for many Americans and some people qualify for assistance under both programs. With lagging …

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021