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Voters Support Making Oil and Gas Companies Pay a Share of Climate Costs Caused by Pollution [1]
['Timothy Bresnahan']
Date: 2023-12-12
By Kevin Hanley
As the United States reckons with the impacts of climate change, lawmakers are debating how to pay for the growing costs of climate damages in communities across the nation.
New polling from Data for Progress and Fossil Free Media finds wide support for a bill that would require oil and gas companies to pay a share of climate costs caused by pollution.
Around two-thirds of likely voters support such a proposal, by a +40-point net margin. The proposal is incredibly popular among Democrats (88 percent support), but also enjoys support from a majority of Independents (61 percent). Black (78 percent) and Latino voters (75 percent) are more likely to support such a proposal, as are young voters (ages 18-29: 68 percent), who report a higher intensity of support (37 percent strongly supportive) for the bill than voters overall.
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