Issue: Climate Policy

This post includes a roundup of climate + environment headlines from this week’s public polls, good data points to highlight, and a full roundup including key takeaways from each poll.
HEADLINES

POLITICO/Morning Consult – Voters widely support major items in the Build Back Better budget, including renewable energy, even when the budget is framed as Democrats’ bill (Topline, Crosstabs)
Data for Progress + Invest in America – Long-term care and grid modernization continue to drive support for the Build Back Better budget; voters are resistant to the idea of cutting any of the plan’s major provisions (Release, Topline)
Reuters/Ipsos – Less than half of Republican voters trust their own party on the environment (Release)
Daily Kos/Civiqs – Voters remain mixed on the Paris Climate Agreement and Keystone XL cancellation (Release)

This post includes a roundup of climate + environment headlines from this week’s public polls, good data points to highlight, and a full roundup including key takeaways from each poll.
HEADLINES

Climate Power + Data for Progress – Voters in moderate U.S. House budget holdouts’ home districts want clean energy and climate investments on top of the infrastructure bill (Release, Topline)
POLITICO/Morning Consult – Climate ranks at the top of Democratic voters’ legislative priorities, and there is little backlash to the infrastructure bill (Crosstabs)
Navigator – With awareness of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework low, providing basic details still significantly boosts support with all constituencies (Topline)
Economist/YouGov – Rising sea levels, extreme heat, and drought continue to be the most widely accepted examples of climate affecting weather today (Topline, Crosstabs)
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication – Hot, dry days are more likely to affect Americans’ climate change beliefs than other types of extreme weather (Article, Published Study)
Quinnipiac – Half of Floridians think that climate change will negatively impact the state in their lifetimes (Release)

This post includes a roundup of climate + environment headlines from this week’s public polls, good data points to highlight, and a full roundup including key takeaways from each poll.
HEADLINES

YouGov – Partisanship drives Americans’ perceptions of weather (Article)
Navigator – The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework remains popular (Release, Slide Deck)
POLITICO/Morning Consult – Renewable energy investment ranks among the most popular provisions in the Build Back Better budget; infrastructure has the public’s attention, but the IPCC report hasn’t broken through (Crosstabs)
Data for Progress + Invest in America – Grid modernization is an overwhelmingly popular selling point for the Build Back Better budget (Release, Topline)
Data for Progress – Voters widely support corporate climate accountability along the lines of the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act (Memo, Topline)