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Investing In Clean Air Creates American Jobs | The responsible investing group Ceres is running ads supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s push to reduce industrial air pollution. Ceres’ ad, running in Politico, CQ Today, National Journal, and Roll Call, promotes the 1.5 million high-paying jobs for engineers, electricians, pipefitters, welders, and others that would be created by the spur to retrofit aging plants. Coal-powered electricity providers have falsely claimed the new rules to would threaten the reliability of electricity production, even though studies have shown that the old, polluting coal plants can be retired without any harm. This claim has been made in the past about previous rules, and the doomsday predictions have never come to pass.