The Obama administration’s proposal this week to cut carbon emissions from power plants by 30% by 2030 was portrayed as a bold move by the White House. But by political standards, it doesn’t look like it will have strong negative consequences for the president or his party. CONT. Dante Chinni […] Read more »
Utahans Least Satisfied With Air Quality
Two in three Utah residents (65%) are satisfied with the air quality in the areas where they live, but this is the lowest percentage among residents of any of the 50 states. Residents of several of Utah’s neighbors — Nevada, California, and Arizona — are also among the least satisfied. […] Read more »
The prudent, not isolationist, public
There’s a lot of hue and cry these days about the American public turning isolationist, seeking to retreat from the world. That, though, is both a misreading of the polls and, frankly, reflects a too-readily dismissive view of what pioneering pollster Elmo Roper once called “the common sense of the […] Read more »
Smaller Majorities in U.S. Favor Gov’t Pollution Controls
More than six in 10 Americans favor setting higher emissions and pollution standards for business and industry, and imposing mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases. The percentages favoring these actions, however, are lower than in 2007 and prior years. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
The Political Rhetoric Around Climate Change … Er, Global Warming
… Last week, Yale University released a study showing that people are more likely to fear “global warming” and take part in a campaign to stop it than they are “climate change.” Yale’s report echoed research by George W. Bush pollster Frank Luntz, who had argued that the Bush White […] Read more »
Climate Change in the American Mind
… By more than a three-to-one margin, more Americans think global warming is happening than think it is not. Currently, 64% of Americans think global is happening, a number that has been relatively stable over the past three years. … Few Americans are “very worried” about global warming and many […] Read more »