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We celebrate Pride at the end of June to remember the Stonewall rebellion/riot to fight police oppression. I joined the LGBTQ movement and the climate movement because I want to end suffering and protect beautiful places and people. Both these movements are about health, justice, resilience, and liberation. As a queer climate advocate, I think it’s important to draw direct connections across liberation struggles, the fight for queer liberation and the climate justice movement, so we can build solidarity and sharpen our political analysis on how to win and expand a social base of power that sees our common interest.

Voters in the U.S. largely support spending money on clean energy infrastructure investment as a recovery tool to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Support is strongest for assistance being given to states that experienced recent extreme weather and climate disasters (80%), and nearly as many people (76%) support reinforcing existing and building new infrastructure that will withstand the changes in climate. Even more progressive policies like the multitrillion dollar economic stimulus focused on green energy receives support from the majority of voters (62%). Moreover, people support action being taken on these policies even when there is not bipartisan support from Republicans.

A May 2021 poll found high support for a Climate Conservation Corps and medium support for nature-based climate solutions. Among likely voters surveyed, 83% of Democrats, 67% of Independents, and even 50% of Republicans support “government investments in a new “Climate Conservation Corps.” 80% of Democrats, 59% of Independents, and 41% of Republicans support “ocean climate action, which is harnessing the natural ability of the ocean to fight climate change.” Voters showed similar levels of support for “nature-based solutions to climate change.”             

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including polling on the American Jobs Plan, taxes for infrastructure, the Keystone XL cancellation, and climate impacts.