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Most in US want more action on climate change: AP-NORC poll

FILE - Empty docks are shown at the Antelope Island Marina due to record low water levels Aug. 31, 2022, on the Great Salt Lake, near Syracuse, Utah. A new AP-NORC poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans think the federal government is not doing enough to fight climate change, even as they have limited awareness about a sweeping new law that commits the U.S. to its largest ever investment to combat global warming. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) FILE - President Joe Biden signs the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, as from left, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., watch. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - President Joe Biden drives a Cadillac Lyriq through the showroom during a tour at the Detroit Auto Show, Sept. 14, 2022, in Detroit. Americans are generally more likely to support than oppose many of the government actions on climate change included in the law, a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows. That includes incentives for electric vehicles and solar panels, though relatively few say they are inclined to pursue either in the next three years. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) FILE Guests tour one of the turbines of America's first offshore wind farm, owned by the Danish company, Orsted, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., as part of a wind power conference, Oct. 17, 2022. A new AP-NORC poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans think the federal government is not doing enough to fight climate change, even as they have limited awareness about a sweeping new law that commits the U.S. to its largest ever investment to combat global warming. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Workers talk atop a building that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian at Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)