FILE - This Aug. 25, 2009 photo shows a shirts worn by a person at a rally against federal legislation on climate change in Greeley, Colo., organized by the American Petroleum Institute. 'Why would we do anything to drive up their cost of doing business? It makes no sense,' local radio host Amy Oliver Cooke told the crowd, most of whom wore shirts that said, 'Congress, Don't Take Away my Job.'  Nearly half of Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy in a Associated Press-Stanford University poll conducted in November 2009.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP – More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It’s a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama’s economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill jobs.

Source:Poll: Action on climate will heat up economy, jobs
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