The Clean Energy Future Is Roiling Both Friends and Foes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : After years of fits and starts, the transition to renewable energy like wind and solar power is finally shifting into full gear in many parts of the world, including the United States, which has been buoyed by massive new subsidies from the Biden administration.
64% : Many opponents of renewable energy, she added, "are worried about the impacts to their very way of life."While Americans broadly support renewable energy, polls show, they are less enthusiastic about having it in their backyard.
62% : It is the kind of breakthrough in clean energy technology that is allowing a much faster transition to renewables than many believed possible, aided by state officials eager to pioneer a floating wind industry.
58% : Across the country, clean energy projects of all types are tied up in lengthy permitting processes.
57% : "There's a lot of capital ready to flow," said Gregory Wetstone, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, another trade group.
56% : A study this spring from Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law found a 35 percent increase last year in local ordinances restricting renewable energy development, as well as a nearly 40 percent rise in wind or solar projects facing "serious organized opposition."
56% : "There are a lot of creative ways to site clean energy," Ali Zaidi, the White House national climate adviser, said in an interview.
52% :"All of us would like to think that we can have renewable energy with zero impact on the environment -- as you know, it's not possible, right?"
50% : But some officials have warned that it could be difficult for Mack Point to secure needed permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies in order to dredge the bay and build new port facilities.
49% : Onshore wind and solar power have helped reduce electric costs, but the state cannot feasibly reach its renewables goals -- and less expensive energy bills -- without offshore generation.
35% : In Australia, clean energy companies have complained about a shortage of skilled workers.

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