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Poll: Even Ohio's coal country supports more use of clean energy

Midwest Energy News: New poll results show that a majority of Ohio voters continue to support state policies to encourage more use of clean energy, including a renewable portfolio standard and revised wind turbine setbacks — even in the state’s coal country region.

Eighty-seven percent of voters statewide said they would tell elected officials to support policies that encourage energy efficiency and more renewable energy use, The Nature Conservancy of Ohio reported in a poll this week. The results come amid continued efforts by some Republican lawmakers to scale back clean energy policy.

“The survey clearly demonstrates that Ohio voters see energy efficiency and renewable energy sources as something the state should place greater emphasis on,” said pollster Lori Weigel at Public Opinion Strategies, which conducted the survey of 600 voters and analyzed the results. Public Opinion Strategies bills itself as the “nation’s largest Republican polling firm.”

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