Americans remain divided over government's importance in promoting wider muse of renewables % of U.S. adults who say The private marketplace will ensure that businessesand consumers relly more on renewable tregulations energy sources, even witho ut gove rnment regulations Gove mnent tregulations are necessary to encoura ge businesses and cons umers to firely more on rene wable energy sources
Views on this question are strongly aligned with partisan affiliation. While 72% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that government regulations are necessary to promote adoption of renewable energy sources, 65% of Republicans and Republican leaners say the private marketplace can accomplish that goal without government regulations.
Americans remain divided over government's  | importance in promoting wider muse of renewables  | % of U.S. adults who say  | The private marketplace will ensure that businessesand consumers relly  | more on renewable tregulations energy sources, even witho ut gove rnment regulations  | Gove mnent tregulations are necessary to encoura ge businesses and  | cons umers to firely more on rene wable energy sources  | U.S ad ults  | 42  | 56  | Republican/lean Rep  | 65  | 35  | Democrat/lean Dem  | 26  | .72  | Note: Respondents Survev who did March notgive 27-April an answerarenotshown. 2018  | Source Respondents Survev conducted March 27-April 9. 2018  | "Majorities See Government Efforts to Protectthe Environmentas Insufficient"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 