Views about environmental regulation by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination by views about environmental protection
% of adults who say…
Religious denomination | Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy | Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 27% | 66% | < 1% | 6% | 117 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 41% | 55% | 2% | 2% | 467 |
Anglican Church | 38% | 51% | 7% | 4% | 111 |
Assemblies of God | 46% | 46% | 3% | 5% | 460 |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 51% | 42% | 2% | 5% | 111 |
Church of God in Christ | 36% | 55% | 2% | 6% | 165 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 53% | 42% | 3% | 2% | 641 |
Church of the Nazarene | 56% | 40% | 1% | 3% | 101 |
Churches of Christ | 50% | 46% | 1% | 3% | 498 |
Episcopal Church | 29% | 67% | 2% | 2% | 494 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 33% | 64% | 2% | 1% | 641 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 54% | 42% | 2% | 1% | 825 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 33% | 65% | 2% | 1% | 206 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 25% | 71% | 3% | 1% | 139 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 46% | 51% | 1% | 2% | 459 |
National Baptist Convention | 29% | 65% | 2% | 3% | 462 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 45% | 50% | 3% | 2% | 187 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 50% | 44% | 3% | 3% | 684 |
Nondenominational fundamentalist | 62% | 34% | 2% | 2% | 107 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 36% | 57% | 3% | 4% | 2,015 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 27% | 68% | 2% | 2% | 2,969 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 39% | 56% | 2% | 2% | 428 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 46% | 49% | 2% | 3% | 158 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 36% | 57% | 3% | 4% | 165 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 50% | 44% | 3% | 3% | 1,845 |
Spiritual but not religious | 25% | 57% | 9% | 8% | 128 |
Unitarian | 10% | 88% | 2% | 1% | 165 |
United Church of Christ | 27% | 69% | 2% | 2% | 227 |
United Methodist Church | 42% | 53% | 2% | 2% | 1,637 |
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