{"id":4679,"date":"2023-11-02T13:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/massachusetts\/updates\/most-americans-ok-with-wind-and-solar-farms-as-neighbors\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:53:20","slug":"most-americans-ok-with-wind-and-solar-farms-as-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/massachusetts\/updates\/most-americans-ok-with-wind-and-solar-farms-as-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans ok with wind and solar farms as neighbors"},"featured_media":50076,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[153],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"region_tax":[],"state":[2],"topic_tax":[121,126,136,143,145],"class_list":["post-4679","update","type-update","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[121,126,136,143,145],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":153,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":121}},"featured_image":50076,"caption_override":"","excerpt":"Recent polling suggests most Americans are comfortable with clean energy projects in their communities","hide_hero_image":false},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":[{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":15,"people":"112"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}}]},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"As <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/center\/resources\/renewables-on-the-rise-dashboard\/\">clean energy grows<\/a>, two recent polls suggest that most Americans are comfortable welcoming renewable energy projects into their neighborhoods. A <a class=\"m_505840880814859169Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-solutions\/2023\/10\/03\/solar-panels-wind-turbines-nimby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click.email.latimes.com\/?qs%3D8584ee66a6b714c466069066447a96dbfcd0a4d464700909ee665b4a58fd154b14c8b7d9057cd7739ff3ce66041cc5517de2f7c4a9bf68714e701a445efb2ac0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1699018106045000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1E99p3QHw05XLlXPUjqUlp\">national poll<\/a> conducted by the University of Maryland in partnership with the Washington Post found that 75% of Americans would be comfortable living near a solar farm, and 68% near a wind farm. Meanwhile, a <a href=\"https:\/\/igs.berkeley.edu\/research\/berkeley-igs-poll?utm_id=117550&amp;sfmc_id=2600162&amp;skey_id=970d2ad2fce67c8ae1b4993c963d9011c5810e5d57d187bfef53e21ae2d55d26\">poll<\/a> of registered California voters conducted by UC Berkeley\u2019s Institute of Governmental Studies and cosponsored by the L.A. Times found similar trends. 69% of respondents to that poll said they would be comfortable with fields of solar panels in their community and 56% of respondents expressed that they would be comfortable with local wind turbines.\r\n\r\n\"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The more power we harness from the sun and the wind, the sooner we can stop burning fossil fuels. And the sooner, the better,\" <strong>said <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/center\/people\/johanna-neumann\/\">Johanna Neumann<\/a>, Senior Director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy at Environment America Research &amp; Policy Center.\u00a0<\/strong>\"These polling results should give decision-makers at the local, state and national level the confidence to embrace clean energy developments.\"<\/span>","":null}}],"featured_content":[]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Most Americans ok with wind and solar farms as neighbors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recent polling suggests most Americans are comfortable with clean energy projects in their communities\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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