Post BP Disaster: Support grows for comprehensive energy bill that makes carbon polluters pay

As the BP oil disaster drags on, the public's desire for clean energy investments and increased oversight of corporate polluters has greatly intensified.  CAP's Daniel J. Weiss and intern Ariel Powell have the important data and charts from a major new poll.

The League of Conservation Voters commissioned a poll by the Benenson Strategy Group, President Obama's pollster in 2008, to measure public support for clean energy reform in the wake of the BP oil disaster.   The central finding is that