Five projects received funding in the second year of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions' Catalyst Program.
Rural Americans matter to the fate of U.S. environmental policy. Not only do farmers, ranchers, and forest owners manage huge portions of American lands and watersheds, but rural voters also have an outsized impact on policy, and in particular the United States Senate, which explicitly empowers rural states. This project aims to better understand rural Americans' views on the environment, environmental policy, and environmentalism by understanding the attitudes of rural North Carolinians.