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1 | Pollster | Date | Net favorability | Favorable : unfavorable | Total favorable | Total unfavorable | Strongly favorable | Somewhat favorable | Neutral | Somewhat unfavorable | Strongly unfavorable | Dividend? | Notes | Link | Question |
2 | YouGov | 2021-11-16 | 32 | 2.3 | 57 | 25 | 57 | 19 | 25 | No dividend | Interactives and link to cross-tabs at https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/11/19/half-americans-prioritize-protecting-environment | https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/anoy7rtkl2/econTabReport.pdf | In order to assist efforts to combat the effects of climate change, would you be willing to pay a carbon tax, based on each taxpayer’s carbon emissions? | ||
3 | ClimateNexus/Yale/GMU | 2021-09-20 | 39 | 2.3 | 68.4 | 29.4 | 34.2 | 34.2 | 2.2 | 14.2 | 15.2 | No dividend | Separately showed 69% supported total, so distributed the rounded point to favorable+neutral | https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/politics-global-warming-september-2021.pdf | How much do you support or oppose the following policies? Require fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax and use the money to reduce other taxes (such as income tax) by an equal amount |
4 | ClimateNexus/Yale/GMU | 2021-06-15 | 37 | 2.4 | 64 | 27 | 38 | 26 | 8 | 12 | 15 | No dividend | Corp tax was +35 | https://climatenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Infrastructure-Climate-Change-National-Poll-Toplines-2021.pdf | Do you support or oppose the following as ways to pay for additional infrastructure spending? Requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a tax on their carbon pollution |
5 | Morning Consult | 2021-04-25 | 18 | 1.5 | 52 | 34 | 24 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 20 | No dividend | Corp tax was +23 at 25%, +16 at 28% | https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2021/04/28122000/2104106_crosstabs_MC_ENERGY_PARIS_ACCORD_RVs_v3_LM.pdf | Would you support or oppose the following potential sources of funding for U.S. infrastructure investments? A carbon tax, impacting all greenhouse gas emitter |
6 | Yale | 2020-12-31 | 37 | 2.2 | 68 | 31 | 68 | 1 | 31 | No dividend | https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/ | Require fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax and use the money to reduce other taxes (such as income tax) by an equal amount. | |||
7 | University of Maryland Program for Public Consulation | 2020-10-01 | 24 | 1.6 | 61.9 | 37.7 | 61.9 | 0.4 | 37.7 | With dividend | Follows lots of details provided in prior questions | https://publicconsultation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CarbonFeeRebateQuaire2020.pdf | So now, let’s review the basics of the proposal: 1. The government would charge companies that produce coal, oil or natural gas, a fee based on the amount of carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gasses, emitted when the fuels they produce are burned. This amount would be equal to $35 per ton of carbon dioxide produced. 2. All of the money collected from that fee would then be given to all citizens equally in the form of a monthly rebate check. The amount would total about $450 per person each year or $37.50 per month. For nearly all low- and middle-income people, the amount of the rebate would be more than the amount needed to cover their increased costs due to the fee. Do you favor or oppose this proposal? | ||
8 | Pew | 2020-05-05 | 48 | 2.9 | 73 | 25 | 73 | 2 | 25 | No dividend | Question text may not be verbatim | https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of-americans-think-government-should-do-more-on-climate/ | Do you support taxing corporations based on their carbon emissions to reduce the effects of global climate change? | ||
9 | Morning Consult | 2020-02-02 | 49 | 4.0 | 65 | 16 | 65 | 19 | 16 | With dividend | 65% total favorable, 4:1. Question text might not be verbatim. | https://clcouncil.org/morning-consult-poll.pdf | Charging fossil fuel companies for their carbon emissions and giving the money back to Americans with the goal of cutting emissions | ||
10 | EPIC/AP-NORC | 2019-12-31 | 15 | 1.5 | 44 | 29 | 44 | 27 | 29 | No dividend | Question text may not be verbatim | https://epic.uchicago.edu/area-of-focus/public-opinion-on-energy-climate-change/ | Do you support a policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by taxing the use of carbon-based fuels based on how much they contribute to climate change? | ||
11 | EPIC/AP-NORC | 2019-12-31 | 25 | 2.0 | 49 | 24 | 49 | 27 | 24 | With dividend | Question text may not be verbatim. Only favorable was reported, so I assumed the change came from unfavorable. | https://epic.uchicago.edu/area-of-focus/public-opinion-on-energy-climate-change/ | Do you support a policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by taxing the use of carbon-based fuels based on how much they contribute to climate change, if the revenue funds a tax rebate to all Americans? | ||
12 | Luntz | 2019-05-08 | 51 | 4.4 | 66 | 15 | 34 | 32 | 19 | 7 | 8 | With dividend | https://clcouncil.org/media/Luntz-Carbon-Dividends-Polling-May-20-2019-FINAL.pdf | Business and environmental leaders are proposing a bipartisan climate solution that charges fossil fuel companies for their carbon emissions and gives all the money directly to the American people through a quarterly check. This new climate solution is called “Carbon Dividends”, because all households would receive a quarterly cash payment as part of an effort to solve climate change. Would you support or oppose this plan? | |
13 | Yale/GMU | 2018-08-30 | 35 | 2.5 | 58 | 23 | 24 | 34 | 19 | 11 | 12 | With dividend | Also found plurality support dividends over other uses | https://clcouncil.org/media/YaleGMU-Poll-October-2018.pdf | As you may know, some Republican party leaders have proposed requiring fossil fuel companies (coal, oil, and natural gas) to pay a tax on their carbon emissions and rebating all the money collected directly to all Americans through a monthly check. This proposed policy is called a “carbon dividend” because all households would receive a monthly cash dividend as part of an effort to combat climate change. Do you support or oppose this plan? |
14 | Hill-Knowlton | 2018-06-10 | 30 | 2.2 | 56 | 26 | 23 | 33 | 18 | 14 | 12 | With dividend | Also found 38% wanted direct cash rebates, plurality among other uses | https://clcouncil.org/media/Baker-Shultz-Carbon-Dividends-Plan-Survey-Results.pdf | As you may know, some leading figures in the Republican party have proposed taxing fossil fuel companies on their carbon emissions and rebating all the money directly to all Americans through a monthly check. This new climate solution is called "carbon dividends" because all households would receive a monthly cash dividend as part of an effort to combat climate change. Would you favor or oppose this plan? |
15 | Gallup | 2018-03-08 | 8 | 1.2 | 53 | 45 | 53 | 2 | 45 | No dividend | https://news.gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx | Do you generally favor or oppose passing a carbon tax to encourage reductions in carbon dioxide emissions? | |||
16 | RFF/NYT/Stanford | 2015-01-22 | 26 | 1.7 | 61 | 35 | 61 | 4 | 35 | No dividend | https://media.rff.org/archive/files/sharepoint/Documents/RFF-NYTimes-Stanford-global-warming-poll-Jan-2015-topline-part-3.pdf | Do you think the federal government should or should not require companies to pay a tax to the government for every ton of greenhouse gases the companies put out? | |||
17 | RFF/NYT/Stanford | 2015-01-22 | 36 | 2.2 | 67 | 31 | 67 | 2 | 31 | With dividend | https://media.rff.org/archive/files/sharepoint/Documents/RFF-NYTimes-Stanford-global-warming-poll-Jan-2015-topline-part-3.pdf | Do you think the federal government should or should not require companies to pay a tax to the government for every ton of greenhouse gases the companies put out? All this tax money would be given to all Americans equally by reducing the amount of income taxes they pay. | |||
18 | RFF/NYT/Stanford | 2015-01-22 | 37 | 2.2 | 67 | 30 | 67 | 3 | 30 | No dividend | https://media.rff.org/archive/files/sharepoint/Documents/RFF-NYTimes-Stanford-global-warming-poll-Jan-2015-topline-part-3.pdf | Do you think the federal government should or should not require companies to pay a tax to the government for every ton of greenhouse gases that will be put out by coal, natural gas, and oil the companies bring into the U.S. from other countries? | |||
19 | RFF/NYT/Stanford | 2015-01-22 | 40 | 2.4 | 69 | 29 | 69 | 2 | 29 | With dividend | https://media.rff.org/archive/files/sharepoint/Documents/RFF-NYTimes-Stanford-global-warming-poll-Jan-2015-topline-part-3.pdf | Do you think the federal government should or should not require companies to pay a tax to the government for every ton of greenhouse gases that will be put out by coal, natural gas, and oil the companies bring into the U.S. from other countries? All this tax money would be given to all Americans equally by reducing the amount of income taxes they pay. |