Public Opinion
The political climate has shifted. Polling shows huge support for pro-clean energy messages and voters want Republicans to lead with solutions. Go on offense.
Agree or disagree: Clean energy is an issue that Republicans in Congress SHOULD care about.
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Echelon Insights fielded a survey to n=3000 registered voters to landlines and cell phones, sampled from a national voter file. Models were trained on the survey responses, with individual-level predictions of support for clean energy policies. These predictions were then aggregated to create estimates of support for each state and Congressional Districts.
View the Frank Luntz Focus Group with conservative voters on March 2, 2022: Trump voters want GOP to have significant climate solutions.
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Extremely |
Somewhat or strongly agree |
Somewhat or strongly agree |
Want more clean energy, steel and other products made in America | |
Want to reduce climate change | |
Want less expensive clean energy | |
Want to protect future generations | |
Want to beat China at developing clean energy | |
Want to see more bipartisanship |
Climate change is happening and is caused primarily by human activity | |
Climate change is happening and is caused primarily by natural cycles in the Earth’s environment | |
Climate change is not happening | |
Unsure |
Methane is a major impact | |
Carbon dioxide is a major impact | |
Natural gas is a major impact | |
Hydrogen is a major impact |
Stricter regulation on carbon emissions is the best way to fight climate change. | |
Rather than more regulation, more innovation and better technology that lets us reduce carbon emissions is the best way. |
Believe |
Believe |
Make it simpler to build new clean energy projects without getting too tied up in a cumbersome permitting process | |
Encourage manufacturers to consume less energy and emit less carbon when they produce important industrial products like steel and concrete | |
Support the increased use of advanced nuclear power to provide a stable energy source that emits much less carbon | |
Require all companies to report how much carbon they emit through their activities, including their entire supply chain, to federal financial regulators | |
Reduce the amount of meat we all eat and change the diet fed to cattle to reduce methane emissions |
The U.S Department of Energy | |
The Environmental Protection Agency | |
The United States Congress | |
International organizations like the United Nations | |
Large publicly traded corporations | |
Investors and portfolio managers for large investment funds | |
Everyday people |