Environmental Polling Roundup – June 18th, 2021

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.

HEADLINES

Navigator – Basic voter education can help overcome partisan polarization around the American Jobs Plan, and a steady 70% majority support the bill’s substance (Release, Deck)

Data for Progress + Invest in America – Voters widely support paying for infrastructure through taxes on corporations and the very wealthy, and reject both “user fees” and repurposing pandemic relief money (Blog Post, Topline)

POLITICO/Morning Consult – Voters have mixed reactions to the Keystone XL cancellation and to halting fossil fuel projects more generally (Article, Crosstabs)

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication & George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication – Air pollution, water pollution, and extreme heat top Americans’ local environmental concerns (Report)

Good data points to highlight:

-74% of voters support paying for infrastructure by making corporate taxes fairer, including closing corporate tax loopholes (Data for Progress)

-70% of voters support the American Jobs Plan after a brief explanation of its contents, with more support than opposition among Democrats, independents, and Republicans (Navigator)

-69% of voters support paying for infrastructure with a capital gains tax on those earning over $1 million a year in investment income (Data for Progress)

-65% of voters support paying for infrastructure by increasing income taxes on Americans earning over $400,000 (Data for Progress)

-More Americans say that climate change and the environment is the single most important issue to them any issue besides health care and the economy (Economist/YouGov)