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Environmental Polling Consortium Quarterly Briefing – Q4 2024
As expected, the economy dominated all other issues in the 2024 election. Climate change ended up being a mid-tier issue for the electorate overall. Voters who named climate change as their top issue supported Harris by a wider margin than any other group. Despite the result, this was a pro-climate electorate: Around two-thirds of voters said that they’re concerned about climate impacts in their communities, and most also want the country to prioritize clean energy over fossil fuels. Trump won in spite of his climate approach, which was a clear negative with voters. Even within the Trump coalition, there are serious concerns with his handling of climate change.
Poll of American Farmers Shows Strong, Widespread Support for Increased Farm Bill Conservation Funding
The overwhelming majority of U.S. farmers want to increase funding for USDA’s voluntary conservation programs. 75% of U.S. agricultural producers support increasing long-term funding for USDA’s voluntary conservation programs. Only 5% of farmers disagreed. Approximately 90% of producers surveyed either supported or were neutral on Congress moving the remaining, unspent climate-smart agriculture funds permanently into Farm Bill conservation programs to provide additional long-term funding to help farmers and ranchers adopt climate-smart agriculture conservation practices now and in the future. 64% of producers surveyed either agreed or strongly agreed. 74% of producers surveyed said that they think USDA conservation program payments are important in helping producers improve their bottom line, reduce input costs, and modernize their operations.
Poll: Arizona Voters Believe Clean Energy Will Clean Up our Air and Strengthen Our Economy
Arizona voters widely agree that climate change is affecting them now, and want state policymakers to do more about it – including transitioning more to solar and wind power. By a 77%-23% margin, Arizona voters say that the state should continue rather than repeal policies that encourage the transition to clean energy like wind and solar. 77% of Arizona voters agree that using more clean energy like wind and solar would create quality jobs and strengthen Arizona’s economy. 71% of Arizona voters agree that using more clean energy like wind and solar would save Arizona families money. 70% of Arizona voters agree that climate change is already having a serious impact on their part of the country.
Poll: Are Americans Concerned About Global Warming?
Four in ten Americans say that they worry “a great deal” about global warming or climate change, and concerns are particularly high among Black and Hispanic Americans. This new analysis reveals large differences in concern across several demographic variables, in addition to partisanship. Women, for example, are 15 points more likely to say that they worry at least “a fair amount” about global warming or climate change (69%) than men (54%). Black Americans (80%) and Hispanic Americans (80%) show the greatest concerns of any demographic segment, and they are both 26 points more likely to say that they worry at least “a fair amount” about the issue than White Americans (54%). Concerns also tend to be higher the more formal education that people have received, as Americans with postgraduate degrees (71%) are the most likely to say that they worry about climate change at least “a fair amount.” By comparison, 60% of Americans without any college education and 55% of Americans with some college education say that they worry at least “a fair amount” about climate change.
The Power of Coalitions with Xaver Kandler
This podcast episode explores the power of grassroots organizing and coalitions to further environmental justice through climate policy. In this podcast episode, we hear from Xaver Kandler, Campaigns Director at NY Renews. NY Renews is a coalition of over 380 environmental, justice, faith, labor, & community groups, working to further legislation to support climate, jobs, and justice in New York State. This episode discusses NY state policies including the Climate Leadership and Communities Protection Act, the New York Heat Act, the Just Energy Transition Act, the Climate Superfund Act, and more.
2024 Data for Climate Progress Wrapped
Voters consistently report holding strong favorable views of solar energy. However, despite this positive sentiment, just under half of voters report being likely to consider rooftop solar installation, highlighting a key gap between sentiments to solar and action. Younger voters and renters have greater support for solar, highlighting the potential for future solar adoption as they become homeowners or encourage their landlord to adopt solar. These findings highlight the importance of education to bridge the gap between consumer interest and action on residential solar adoption. Investments in education about the benefits of solar, including reduced energy costs – coupled with outreach to ensure voters are hearing about targeted financial incentives to bring down the upfront costs of installation – could help remove financial barriers and accelerate solar deployment and the transition to a more sustainable energy future.
Active & passive support
Mass movements work by organizing ordinary people to work together and withdraw consent from the status quo. As the Momentum participant guide explains, “For instance, the boss relies on the tacit consent of the workers to work; if the workers don’t show up, the boss’ power is empty – he rules over no one.” With a social view of power in mind, movements need many, many participants in order to have the power to win – not just a few core organizers. To bring supporters on board to a movement, we can categorize support as “passive” or “active.” The difference between passive and active supporters is exactly what it sounds like; active supporters walk the passive supporters’ talk.
Poll: How Americans View Climate Change and Policies to Address the Issue
Americans are split on whether efforts to address climate change help or hurt the economy. Democrats and Republicans continue to have different priorities for climate policy, with Democrats emphasizing environmental protection and Republicans prioritizing consumer costs. 74% of Americans say that human activities like burning fossil fuels are contributing at least “some” to climate change. 64% of Americans say that climate change is currently having at least “some” impact on their local community. 69% of Americans say that large businesses and corporations are doing too little to help reduce the effects of climate change. 89% of Americans support planting about a trillion trees to absorb carbon emissions. 84% of Americans support requiring oil and gas companies to seal methane gas leaks from oil wells. 83% of Americans support providing a tax credit to Americans who improve home energy efficiency. 79% of Americans support providing a tax credit to businesses for developing technology that captures and stores carbon emissions. 68% of Americans support taxing corporations based on their carbon emissions. 61% of Americans support requiring power plants to eliminate all carbon emissions by 2040.
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