Advancing bipartisan decarbonization policies: lessons from state-level successes and failures.

ABSTRACT: U.S. political polarization is at a high point since the Civil War, and is a significant barrier to coordinated national action addressing climate change. To examine where common ground may exist, here we comprehensively review and characterize successes and failures of recent state-level decarbonization legislation, focusing especially on bipartisanship. We analyze 418 major state-government-enacted bills and 450 failed bills from 2015 to 2020, as well as the political contexts in which they were passed or defeated. We use bivariate analyses and regressions to explore correlations and partial correlations between the policy characteristics and political contexts of bills, and their passage or failure, their bipartisanship, and vote shares they received. Key results include (i) nearly one-

SUBMITTER: Marshall R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8968113 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature