{"id":7355,"date":"2010-07-28T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2010-07-28T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T04:01:19","slug":"poll-shows-support-for-climate-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2010\/07\/28\/poll-shows-support-for-climate-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Shows Support for Climate Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expansive new poll on environmental attitudes suggests that despite the recession, Californians are holding fast to their environmental priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Among the findings in the report released this week by the non-partisan <a title=\"PPIC - main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/main\/home.asp\">Public Policy Institute of California<\/a> is that support for the state&#8217;s climate change strategy remains strong, even in the face of a well-financed campaign against the law known as AB 32. Two-thirds (67%) of the respondents support the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in California&#8211;about the same level as when PPIC polled the question last year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s different this year, though, is that opponents of AB 32 are ramping up a <a title=\"Yes on 23 - main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yeson23.com\/\">statewide campaign<\/a> to suspend the act&#8217;s regulations until the state unemployment rate drops to 5.5% or less and remains there for a year. It&#8217;s currently more than 12%. The question will appear on the November ballot as Proposition 23.<\/p>\n<p>The PPIC poll did not ask directly about Prop 23, as the measure was not yet officially titled when the polling began earlier this month. Proponents of Prop 23 <a title=\"SacBee - Capitol Alert\" href=\"\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/proposition-23-backers-sue-ag.html\">have filed suit<\/a> against the state, claiming that the planned ballot description overstates the measure&#8217;s intent. The current language was chosen by Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown, who supports AB 32.<\/p>\n<p>According to PPIC President Mark Baldassare, the state&#8217;s climate legislation could become a key issue in the campaign for the statehouse between Brown and Republican Meg Whitman:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s no question that the fight over AB 32 will be a major factor,&#8221; Baldassare told me in an interview today. &#8220;People will be looking at the candidate&#8217;s position on climate change because there are major issues at stake, certainly for California and AB32 and its implementation&#8211;but also in Congress and what Congress might do next with energy policy or climate change policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown opposes Prop 23. Whitman has not declared herself on the measure but still supports a one-year suspension of the law, under a provision of AB 32 itself. For a look at Whitman&#8217;s evolving position on AB 32, see the <a title=\"Capitol Notes - post\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2010\/07\/15\/megs-booklet-the-november-edition\/\">recent blog post<\/a> by KQED News capitol correspondent John Myers.<\/p>\n<p>In this month&#8217;s survey, PPIC found that nearly three in four Californians (73%) consider &#8220;global warming&#8221; to be either a &#8220;serious&#8221; (29%) or &#8220;very serious&#8221; (44%) threat to &#8220;the economy and quality of life for California&#8217;s future,&#8221; though opinion was divided along party lines, with Republicans less convinced. Sixty percent of all adults surveyed think that the effects of global warming have started (54%) or will be seen within the next &#8220;few years&#8221; (6%).<\/p>\n<p>A large majority surveyed (76%) support government regulation of greenhouse gases, and nearly six in ten (57%) favor California&#8217;s state government having its own policies, &#8220;separate from the federal government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the greatest common ground revealed in the poll was when respondents rallied around the state&#8217;s requirement to make <a title=\"33x20 - series page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/science\/climatewatch\/33by20\/\">greater use of renewable energy<\/a>. Eighty-five percent of respondents said they favored that approach to curb global warming; 92% of Democrats, 69% of Republicans and 87% of independent voters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we know is that California historically has been a state in which voters are, if anything, leaders more than followers on environmental issues compared to the national electorate,&#8221; said Baldassare. &#8220;They\u2019re deeply concerned about environmental issues&#8230;not just in California but worldwide&#8230;and I think they will expect their candidates will show equal attention to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The complete report is available at the <a title=\"PPIC - main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/main\/home.asp\">PPIC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the recession has worn down environmental sensibilities across the nation, they seem to holding up better in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,34,179,404,406,435,444,446],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-business","tag-air","tag-assembly-bill-32","tag-economics","tag-offshore-drilling","tag-oil","tag-policy","tag-ppic","tag-prop-23"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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