Pennsylvania voters favor EPA greenhouse gas curbs, poll shows

Voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania and Virginia have shifted strongly in support of federal regulations that limit power plant emissions contributing to climate change, according to polls released Thursday by the League of Conservation Voters.

The polls found that 72 percent of Pennsylvania voters and 67 percent of Virginia voters favor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Similar majorities in both states recognize climate change as a serious problem, favor elected officials and candidates who support action to address it, and believe such action will create rather than cost jobs.

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Elizabeth Anderson, a spokeswoman for Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., declined to comment on the poll results. She instead cited the senator's comments about the federal power plant controls earlier this week, in which he accused the Obama administration of a "War on Coal" and continuing policies that drive up energy costs.

Mr. Toomey, unlike some Republican conservatives, has acknowledged that the climate is changing, but not that the change is a product of human activity. He has voted to bar the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases as it did this week.



Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2014/06/05/Pennsylvania-voters-favor-EPA-greenhouse-gas-curbs-polls-show/stories/201406050309

Comment: I'm actually (pleasantly) surprised that there is so much support for this action.