---
title: "Partisan Divide Over Alternative Energy Widens"
description: "Public support for increased federal funding on research into alternative energy technology, including solar technology, has decreased substantially since the early months of the Obama administration, with nearly all the decline coming from Republicans and Republican-leaning independents."
date: "2011-11-10"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2011/11/10/partisan-divide-over-alternative-energy-widens-2/"
categories:
  - "Climate, Energy & Environment"
---

# Partisan Divide Over Alternative Energy Widens