Polls, Pollution and Politics

Although opinion polls show that public support fpr environmental causes has decreased somewhat in recent years, analysis of results shows that, generally speaking, support for environmental protection is broad-based. Heretofore, environmental issues have been cast in bipartisan terms, and that is the way most environmental groups have tried to keep it. It is concluded that the present administration's policies are endangering that tradition. Results of a September 1981 CBS/New York Times survey on support of environmental legislation are broken down by region, by education, age, and race of respondent. (JGB)