New Scientist: If you think politicians are out of touch, you're right. The American public would pay extra to get green electricity, but partisan politics means their elected representatives still won't legislate for it. In his January 2011 State of the Union address, Barack Obama called for a national clean energy standard (NCES) that would see 80 per cent of the country's electricity produced from clean sources by 2035. To find out whether Americans supported this, Matthew Kotchen of Yale University in...
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