A
majority of Illinois voters say they trust the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), not Congress, to decide limits on harmful carbon emissions from power plants, a new Public Policy Polling survey shows.
Illinois
voters are also more likely to throw their support behind candidates
for U.S. Senate who support EPA's proposed carbon pollution regulations
for power plants, rather than those who oppose them, according to the
poll conducted on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC).
"We continue to see public support for limits on carbon
pollution from power plants and extraordinary public skepticism about
Congress trying to prevent that,” David Goldston, director of
NRDC's government affairs program, said on a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “That’s an important message as the
administration moves ahead, as the president has said it will, with
putting out power plant standards to limit carbon pollution for the
first time.” Read more »
Environmental advocacy groups are speaking out against
“anti-environment” amendments attached to the Senate’s budget
resolution. Although the amendments are non-binding, a representative
from 