The Politics of Climate Stimulus

The daily Axios Generate newsletter features the partisan divides installment of Climate Insights 2020 and references specific data from the survey.

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Date

Oct. 13, 2020

News Type

Media Highlight

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Axios Generate

Newly released polling reveals a stark partisan split over whether to include climate and low-carbon energy spending in pandemic economic recovery packages.

Why it matters: The survey comes as Joe Biden is pledging, if he wins, to include clean energy and resilient infrastructure investments in a broad stimulus bill he hopes to quickly move through Congress.

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