Polling Quick Hits – June 4th, 2021

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including polling on infrastructure policy, conservative clean energy beliefs, and conservation as a bipartisan priority.

 

HEADLINES:

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication + George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication – There’s a growing partisan divide on clean energy, but conservation remains a bipartisan priority (Complete Report)

The Nature Conservancy – How to talk to voters, and conservatives in particular, about clean energy and climate (July 2018 Memo)

Data for Progress + Invest in America – Voters care about passing an infrastructure and jobs plan, not about congressional norms and process (Article + Topline)

Good data points to highlight:

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

-78% of Americans support tax rebates for people who purchase energy-efficient vehicles or solar panels (Yale + GMU)

-76% of Americans support funding more research into renewable energy sources (Yale + GMU)

-72% of Americans support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant (Yale + GMU)

-Two-thirds of Americans (67%) support transitioning the U.S. economy to 100% clean energy by 2050 (Yale + GMU)

-By a nearly two-to-one margin (59%-31%), voters would rather keep clean energy investments in the American Jobs Plan than limit the bill’s focus to traditional infrastructure like roads, bridges, and water systems (Data for Progress)