Nevada’s small businesses show strong support for clean energy policies and investment, a poll released today (8/15) shows.

The Small Business Majority’s poll shows:

• 73 percent of small business owners support new EPA standards that require new power plants to reduce their emissions of previously unregulated greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.
• 74 percent support EPA rules to reduce the emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases from new and existing power plants.
• 70 percent of small business owners favor proposed rules to reduce smog and soot pollution that crosses state lines (the “Good Neighbor Rule”).
• 71 percent of Nevada small business owners believe government should play an important role in creating financial incentives that encourage people to take energy efficiency measures, like installing energy efficient light bulbs. Nearly 7 in 10 believe government should provide incentives through funding and policy efforts.

Small business owners polled were politically diverse: 44 percent identified as Republican, 36 percent as Democrat, 11 percent as independent and 8 percent as “other.”

The Small Business Majority is a national nonpartisan small business advocacy organization founded and run by small business owners and focused on solving the biggest problems facing America’s 28 million small businesses.

For more information visit: http://www.smallbusinessmajority.org/small-business-research/clean-energy/