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Signed, Sealed, Ready to Deliver: Millions Speak Out on EPA Rule

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012   

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some Ohioans are joining a record number of people across the nation who are in favor of new regulations to curb carbon pollution at new coal-fired power plants.

The signatures of more than 3 million Americans will be delivered to the Environmental Protection Agency his week, in support of the agency's Carbon Pollution Standard, which reduces some previously unlimited emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Margie Alt heads Environment America, one of the groups that collected the comments.

"Organizations have banded together because the issue of our family's health is so important to us. Not only is this about our family's health, but it's about the health of wildlife, it's about the health of special places and, really, the planet."

A poll released by the Small Business Majority found that seven out of 10 Ohio small business owners favor the standards. Michelle Greenfield, who owns Athens-based Third Sun Solar and Wind Power, thinks they will help the environment and lower health-care costs, both of which would benefit businesses.

"Someone needs to pay for the negative effects of air pollution, and right now it's being laid at the feet of the consumer and of the health-care providers."

The poll covered a politically diverse group of small business owners - 52 percent Republican, 35 percent Democrat and 7 percent who described their views as independent.

Power plants are the nation's largest individual sources of carbon pollution, and Alt says she's pleased to see so many citizens speaking out on the issue.

"The American public is showing not only the Obama administration and EPA, but showing these coal companies that no, we don't want to breathe this air pollution; we don't want to be creating more climate change."

The tougher standard would only cover new power plants, but Alt is hopeful the agency will extend it to existing plants next year. Opponents argue that it will raise electricity prices and close coal plants.

The poll results are online at smallbusinessmajority.org.


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