Hopes for 2012 Legislative Session: Jobs and the environment, together
by Steve Morse, Minnesota Environmental Partnership
The 2012 Legislative Session kicks off this week!
While it’s anticipated that this session will focus on bonding, the Vikings stadium, and various constitutional amendments, important environmental issues will still be part of the policy discussion.
As legislators return to the state Capitol, we urge them to remember that policies that affect our water, clean energy future, and Great Outdoors are vitally important to Minnesota voters – regardless of political party affiliation.
In fact, a 2012 poll* of Minnesota voters found that the majority of voters do not believe that we have to choose between helping the economy vs. protecting our environment. A whopping 79% of voters polled said we can have a clean environment and a strong economy at the same time without having to choose one over the other.
Join us and tell your legislators and Governor Dayton that choosing the economy over the environment is a false choice – Minnesotans want and deserve both.
Having a strong economy and a healthy environment together will make Minnesota better today and for generations to come.
*From a statewide telephone poll of 500 registered Minnesota voters, conducted Jan. 9-11, 2012, for the Minnesota Environmental Partnership by the bipartisan research team of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates and Public Opinion Strategies. The margin of sampling error for the full statewide samples is 4.4 percentage points, plus or minus; margins of error for subgroups within the sample will be larger.
