US conservatives receive a steady stream of anti-environmental messaging from Republican politicians. However, clean-energy conservatives sending strong counter-messages on energy issues could mobilize moderate conservatives to break away from the dominant right-wing defence of fossil fuels.
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McCright, A. Sociology: Clean-energy conservatism. Nat Energy 2, 17026 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2017.26
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