Issue: Wind

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on the Inflation Reduction Act, attitudes toward the country’s major domestic energy sources, and a new paper on the behaviors and perceptions that correlate the most strongly with changes in climate attitudes.

Offshore wind and accountability were the top climate-related issues on social media and in media from June 2022. This resource produced separate reports for four regions of the country (linked separately in this resource’s notes). Climate itself was a top issue area in the West and Midwest. Transportation and electric vehicles did not receive much coverage by quantity or quality in June.

This article discusses seven key sources of opposition to renewable projects and recommendations for a path forward.