Poll Shows Bush Has Growing Support for Environmental Policy

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Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

One entrenched idea is beginning to weaken: The public does not consider President Bush the archenemy of the environment, according to a Gallup poll released yesterday.

"The environmental movement and sympathetic politicians have painted the administration as anti-environmental. Given the administration's refusal to reverse course, there was reason to expect that its opponents would generate a backlash against its environmental policies similar to the one that hit the early Reagan administration," noted Gallup environmental analyst Riley Dunlap.

But there's "little evidence of a comparable backlash ... despite …