Semafor: “Americans Are Turning Against Climate Action”
A segment in the Semafor Net-Zero newsletter discusses one of the key findings from the Climate Insights 2024 survey installment on American climate policy opinions.
A growing share of Americans think government climate action is harmful to the US economy, according to a new poll by Stanford University and the think tank Resources for the Future...
The poll, which had about 1,000 respondents and has been repeated over the last decade, shows that the Biden administration’s key message on climate—that investing in clean energy is good for the US economy—is losing, rather than gaining, traction. And less than half of respondents support tax breaks for EVs, down from 60 percent in 2015. But support is growing for carbon-based border tariffs.
