Resource Type: Polling & Surveys

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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)

Lack of racial and ethnic representation among journalists may relate to the common misperception that White Americans are the most concerned about climate change. Although news reporting on climate change plays a crucial role in shaping public understanding of the issue, little is known about racial/ethnic representation in climate change reporting. In a survey of over 1,000 professional journalists, this resource finds that White journalists were much more likely than Black, Hispanic, or multiracial journalists to have reported on at least one local climate change story in the past year. This lack of representation may contribute to the common misperception that concern about climate change is the domain of affluent Whites, when, in fact, people of color are actually more vulnerable to, and more concerned about, the impacts of climate change than their White counterparts. This resource also reports journalist perceptions of, and interest in, climate change reporting by race/ethnicity.

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)