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Support or opposition to strengthening EPA enforcement of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act even if it costs U.S. jobs, asked in the CES in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024 with the same wording.
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Latest: 45% answered “Oppose” in CES: Stronger Clean Air and Water Act enforcement despite job losses, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Stronger EPA enforcement of clean air and water laws | Stronger EPA enforcement of clean air and water laws Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency enforcement of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act even if it costs US jobs] Caveat: Includes 'even if it costs US jobs'; wording is a garbled stem but the item is the same. | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Strengthen EPA enforcement of clean air and water laws | Strengthen EPA enforcement of clean air and water laws Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency enforcement of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act even if it costs U.S. jobs] Caveat: Text truncated; the 'even if it costs jobs' clause may be missing, which could raise support. | similar | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Stronger EPA enforcement even if it costs jobs | Stronger EPA enforcement even if it costs jobs From what you know about global climate change or global warming, which one of the following statements comes closest to your opinion? [Strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency enforcement of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act even if it costs U.S. jobs] Caveat: Stem mentions climate change, a likely export error; the item itself matches. | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Stronger Clean Air and Water Act enforcement despite job losses | Stronger Clean Air and Water Act enforcement despite job losses Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency enforcement of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act even if it costs U.S. jobs] Caveat: Full wording including the jobs cost clause. | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |