Poll Finds Two-Thirds Backing for Revamped Energy Policy

A Public Opinion Strategies poll found 65 percent of those surveyed supported substantial changes to U.S. energy policy, Greenwire reported. Sixty-four percent of polled Republicans backed a program of cutting GHG emissions and developing clean energy. Following introduction of the Cantwell-Collins cap-and-refund proposal, the poll sought opinions about an energy plan that "aims to protect working families, so it refunds almost all of the money it collects directly to the American people, like a tax refund, and most families end up better off." Nearly 75 percent of those polled supported such a plan.