This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls - including new polling about President Biden’s record on climate change and clean energy + new research on messaging about electric vehicles.

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Is the Inflation Reduction Act, passed nearly two years ago, doing what it set out to do? In this episode, Trevor Houser of the Rhodium Group compares the predictions of pre-IRA energy-sector models to the real-world data on clean-energy investment since its passage.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls - including new polling on climate change as an issue in the presidential election, new polling on the Inflation Reduction Act, and new polling on EPA standards for particle pollution and vehicle emissions.

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Climate Power

The Inflation Reduction Act provides an unprecedented opportunity to foster more equitable participation in clean energy development and channel resources into historically marginalized communities. Because of the IRA’s Direct Pay provision, nonprofits, and state, local, and Tribal governments can now access tax credits over 10 years for clean energy projects in underserved communities. This democratizes energy, unlocking the potential for diverse entities across the U.S. to own clean energy assets as a wealth-building opportunity.

Climate and the environment rank among President Biden’s largest issue advantages over Trump. 76% of voters support protecting the environment and addressing climate change, including 47% who “strongly” support it. 75% of voters support investing in clean energy technologies, including 43% who “strongly” support it.

Voters continue to support the Inflation Reduction Act by a wide margin after learning about it. Voters support the Inflation Reduction Act by a nearly three-to-one margin (68% support / 24% oppose) after reading a brief, one-sentence description of it. And while voters consistently say that they support the IRA, it would be a mistake to assume that they know much about it: polling has consistently found that awareness of the law lags far behind support for it.

Voters overwhelmingly support stronger EPA standards for particle pollution and heavy-duty vehicle emissions. 78% of voters support the EPA setting stricter limits on fine particles, also called “soot,” that power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial facilities can release. 82% of voters support the EPA setting stricter limits on mercury and other toxic air emissions from power plants. 78% of voters support the EPA setting stricter limits on smog from power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial facilities.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls - including new polling on polluter accountability, new message testing about pausing liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, and newly released state-level polling on carbon dioxide removal (CDR).

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Voters overwhelmingly want stronger accountability for polluters, including compensation for damages to the environment and local communities. Most disapprove of the court decision to block an investigation of environmental injustices in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”.