41% Think U.S. Environment Is Getting Worse
Americans remain very positive about the water they drink and the air they breathe, but a sizable number still believes the overall environment in this country is getting worse.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds 47% of Likely U.S. Voters rate the overall quality of the environment in the United States as good or excellent, down slightly from May. Just 13% think the environment is poor. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The national survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on December 8-9, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Fieldwork for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology.