Advancing Equitable Deployment of Regional DAC Hubs
by Celina Scott-Buechler, Julia Jeanty, Catherine Fraser, Grace Adcox, Charlotte Scott, Data for Progress, May 2023
Despite the importance of community buy-in, little public opinion research exists on what voters and specific communities think about DAC, and CDR more broadly. Data for Progress worked to fill this gap by conducting community workshops across the country in partnership with local community based organizations and researchers at Stanford University. To date, they have conducted four community DAC workshops, in East Houston, Texas; Beaver County, Pennsylvania; Bakersfield, California; and Rock Springs, Wyoming. In addition to collecting a combination of qualitative and quantitative data through the four workshops, the authors supplemented their findings with a national survey to assess Americans’ attitudes toward DAC and climate infrastructure developments. High-level methodology and results for both of these components are detailed in this memo.