Resource Type: Polling & Surveys

This Data for Progress poll shows that a strong, bipartisan majority of voters—across party lines—oppose repealing the Inflation Reduction Act. Most Americans support its clean energy and health care investments, with particularly high approval for policies like domestic clean energy manufacturing, tax credits for renewables and EVs, and pollution reduction in vulnerable communities. It’s a useful snapshot of broad public backing for climate and economic provisions in the IRA.

Winning climate campaigns requires understanding the public to make strategic, data-driven decisions and capture the public narrative. This training is for advocates who understand the basics of public opinion research but want more concrete guidance on how to work with polling researchers to inform your campaigns and communications. Join the Yale Program for Climate Change Communication, the Climate Advocacy Lab, and the Environmental Polling Consortium for an interactive webinar that will guide participants through working with pollsters, polling methodology, and best practices.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on utility costs, Trump’s handling of energy costs and other energy and environmental issues, climate change impacts, and federal funding cuts.

Here’s the glimmer: we’re getting smarter on narrative & messaging too. Today we’re sharing highlights from what we’re learning about building support for clean energy programs with a key constituency: Rural America. With our partner [Resource Rural](https://resourcerural.org/), we set out to find out answers to some key questions: Are we telling effective stories about the role of federal investments in people’s lives? Is talking about the benefits of economic growth more effective than economic loss or stability?

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on Americans’ top environmental concerns, climate attitudes, and reactions to the ongoing rollback of public lands protections.