Earth Day: Just 33% Think It’s Helping
Today is Earth Day, but only a third of Americans see it making a difference for the environment.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 33% of American Adults believe Earth Day has helped raise the environmental awareness of most Americans, but 38% say it hasn’t, and 29% are not sure. The number who think Earth Day is helping raise awareness is down from 38% in 2021 and is now the lowest since we first asked this question in 2011
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The survey of 1,165 American Adults was conducted on April 10 and 13-14, 2025 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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