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Public Support Overwhelming for EPA, Poll Says

Posted February 17, 2011 8:25 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

With the EPA losing funding and support from all sides, it might be easy to assume that the EPA doesn't have much public support either. But a poll conducted by the American Lung Association says this is the exact opposite. In a nationwide, bipartisan survey of 1,021 likely voters regarding the public's view on the EPA and their enforcement of clean air standards and regulations, the American Lung Association found that the EPA has overwhelming support, even more so than originally thought.

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02/18/2011 1:14 PM

It sounds like the public is not as poorly informed as big oil would like them to be. The folks that believe environmentalism = socialism/nazism/communism are the ones who are out of step. I look forward to their Koch-fueled song and dance.

I especially like the routine about how global warming is a plot. Please, please someone, tell me that one again. It's so adorable...

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Re: Public Support Overwhelming for EPA, Poll Says

02/18/2011 2:12 PM

The end result gets lost many times, climate change is beside the point

deniers are arguing against efficiency & reducing pollution :D

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