Alexa St. John and Linley Sanders of the Associated Press report on polling about climate change.
- A new poll from AP-NORC found that 45% of American adults have become more concerned about climate change over the past year.
- Despite the Biden administration’s messaging on the issue, a majority of Americans are not familiar with President Biden’s marquee piece of climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
- The reason for this is that subsidies in the IRA have only benefited a privileged few and inflation and energy prices have remained high.
- The most effective and popular climate policy will be those that reduce costs and unleash the private sector to innovate.
“But one of Biden’s major pitches for the IRA — that it will help the American economy and U.S. workers — doesn’t seem to be resonating. According to the poll, only about 2 in 10 Americans say the law has done more to help the U.S. economy, while about one-quarter think it’s done more to hurt the economy, and about half think it either made no difference or don’t know enough to say.”
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