Poll: Voters Want Pretty Much the Opposite of What Congress Is Doing

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Poll: Voters Want Pretty Much the Opposite of What Congress Is Doing

by Emily Atkin at Climate Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/16/3612461/poll-voters-want-renewable-energy/

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A majority of U.S. voters think the government should be advancing policies that promote the growth of renewable energy, protect public lands, and strengthen protections against pollution of drinking water and air, according to a poll released Thursday by the Center for American Progress.

Conducted by national research firm Hart Research Associates, the poll of 1,101 American voters found that 72 percent strongly support more pollution controls, 70 percent strongly support protecting public lands like monuments and wildlife refuge areas, and 66 percent support the expansion of wind, solar, and renewable energy development. Sixty percent of voters surveyed also said they strongly supported setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants — a number that rose to 82 percent when including voters who said they somewhat support that proposal.

As noted by the Center in its press release accompanying the survey results, these opinions differ greatly from the policies being proposed and advanced by the Republican leaders of the new 114th Congress. Those include efforts to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed limits on greenhouse gases from power plants; efforts to increase the amount of Canadian tar sands oil entering the United States via approval of the Keystone XL pipeline; and a bill to lengthen and complicate the process for designating national monuments.






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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Oh well. Shouldn't have voted for 'em then.

[daleanime]

2. Fewer voted for them then Democrats.....

but not by a wide enough margin to carry the day.

[Panich52]

3. Yes, they fid, but...

Dems got 20 million more votes but gerrymandering cancelled them.

Unfortunately, the Repubs see their Congressional majority as a 'mandate' and ignore anything that counters that false idea (they dearly love revisionism, after all...).

[Panich52]

4. So much f/ McConnell's 'will of the people' promise...

[quadrature]

5. lets take a small step forward ... cut the electric wires ...

that supply electricity to Manhattan.
would be easy to do.
there would be less pollution from carbon dioxide.

what's the downside?
almost everybody wins.