As Americans observe Earth Day, Gallup finds 42% of Americans identifying themselves as environmentalists, down from an average of 76% in the late 1980s and early 1990s. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Concerns About Water Pollution Edge Up
After declining last year, Americans’ worries about several environmental issues ticked upward in 2016, and are now mostly back to 2014 levels. A majority express “a great deal” of concern about polluted drinking water (61%) and the pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs (56%). These increases come as details surrounding […] Read more »
AP-GfK online poll: About half of Americans confident in tap water
Only about half of Americans are very confident in the safety of their tap water, and a majority think lead contamination of the tap water in Flint, Michigan, indicates a more widespread problem, rather than an isolated problem. Lower-income Americans and those from minority groups are especially likely to worry […] Read more »
Public Split On What to Do About the Health Care System
The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public as divided as the remaining presidential candidates over their vision for the future of the nation’s health care system. When asked to choose among four broad approaches for changing the health care system currently being discussed, the largest share (36%) say […] Read more »
Doubt about the existence of warming drops, but other forms of skepticism persist
With NASA reporting that 2015 is on track to be the hottest year on record for Earth and as parts of the Western United States are gripped by extreme drought, Americans are less likely than at any time since 2008 to say there is not solid evidence of global warming. […] Read more »
Californians Open To Sacrifice When It Comes To Addressing The Drought
As California copes with its four-year drought, a new Hoover Institution survey shows that the Golden State’s electorate is amenable—across ideological and regional divides–to continued water conservation and sharing groundwater resources with neighboring communities. … The Hoover Institution’s Golden State Poll, administered by the survey research firm YouGov and designed […] Read more »