Fwd: Re: polling: Americans Oppose Upton and Gingrich-style Attacks on Pollution Safeguards - EC

2 Feb 2011


      You all need to take a close look at this new report, because many in Congress are moving in a direction opposed by most Americans.  Last night's conference call with Executive Director Michael Brune was refreshing in that the Club leadership is finally recognizing the threat of the new Congress and is gearing up to oppose Congressional limits on EPA.  But West Virginia's delegation is almost uniformly on the anti-EPA side of this issue, and we need to put some pressure on them, or risk losing to the Friends of Coal.
JBK
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From Michigan, the state the brought you John Dingell during the auto
regulatory era, my profound apologies for now bringing you Mr. Fred "Never
Seen a Fossil Fuel I Didn't Like" Upton.  Sorry.
Anne
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apologies for duplication, but I thought this was useful info for ALL the
state lobby corps, not just chapter directors
paula
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FROM Peter Altman, NRDC Climate Campaign Director
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Americans Oppose Upton and Gingrich-style Attacks on Pollution Safeguards
There has been a lot of talk - and bills - from politicians who think that
the EPA shouldn't be allowed to do its job of protecting our health from air
pollution. Last week,
<http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/who_loses_if_gingrich_gets_his.ht 
ml> Newt Gingrich proposed eliminating the EPA and putting in its place a
bureaucracy that would cater to polluters. Some in Congress want to
eliminate the EPA's ability to update Clean Air Act standards in order to
reduce life-threatening pollution like carbon dioxide, soot, smog and toxic
pollution.
And today, one of the more anticipated bills is supposed to make its
appearance: The Hill reports
<http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/141635-upton-inhofe-to-float-p 
lan-wednesday-that-blocks-epa-climate-rules> today that House Energy and
Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton will unveil a bill to block the
Environmental Protection Agency from limiting life-threatenting carbon
pollution.
Thing is, Americans just don't support the Gingrich - Upton agenda. Public
opinion polling released today by the Opinion Research Corporation finds
that Americans don't want to eliminate the EPA as Gingrich suggests, nor do
they want Congress to stop it from doing its job of protecting public
health, as Chairman Upton and others want to do.
Health professionals take such proposals seriously. As Health Care Without
Harm's Climate Policy Coordinator Brenda Afzal, MS, RN, says:
"Chairman Upton's bill, which is expected to block the Environmental
Protection Agency  from updating the Clean Air Act to limit carbon
pollution, puts our nation's health at risk. Leading health organizations
and experts consider carbon dioxide pollution to be a wide-ranging threat to
public health, which contributes to the same air pollution problems that
worsen asthma and other chronic respiratory illnesses that affect  millions
of Americans and children. Our health should not suffer so that members of
Congress can put corporate profits ahead of the public's health."
Here's the bottom line:
More than three out of four Americans (77 percent) - including a clear
majority of Republicans (61 percent) - oppose efforts in Congress to block
Clean Air Act updates for carbon, smog and other pollution, according to a
national opinion survey by Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) International
for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
You can find the full report  http://bit.ly/fXmFyX. here. And here are
some more details:
*	Americans want the EPA to do more, not less.  Almost two thirds of
Americans (63 percent) say "the EPA needs to do more to hold polluters
accountable and protect the air and water," versus under a third (29
percent) who think the EPA already "does too much and places too many costly
restrictions on businesses and individuals."  Well under half of Republicans
(44 percent), less than a third of Independents (29 percent) and under a
fifth of Democrats (16 percent) think the EPA is going too far today.
*	Americans do not want Congress to kill the EPA's anti-pollution
updates.   Only 18 percent of Americans - including fewer than a third of
Republicans (32 percent) -- believe that "Congress should block the EPA from
updating pollution safeguards," after being told:  "Some members of Congress
are proposing to block the Environmental Protection Agency from updating
safeguards to protect our health from dangerous air pollution, saying they
will cost businesses too much money."  By contrast, more than three out of
four Americans (77 percent) -- including 61 percent of Republicans - say
"Congress (should) let the EPA do its job."
*	The vast majority of Republicans - and all Americans - oppose the
Newt Gingrich plan to dismantle the EPA.   Overall, only 25 percent of
Americans agree with Newt Gingrich's call to eliminate the EPA.  More than
two out of three Americans (67 percent) oppose abolishing the EPA, including
half (49 percent) who strongly oppose it.    Among those opposing the
Gingrich plan:  61 percent of Republicans, 57 percent of Independents, and
79 percent of Democrats.
You can get the full news release and other materials here.
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Peter Altman
Climate Campaign Director
Natural Resources Defense Council
Phone: 202-289-2435
Email:  mailto:paltman@nrdc.org paltman@nrdc.org 
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