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Despite polarized opinions, Democrats and Republicans perform same amount of 'green' actions

Political party affiliation has little bearing on the number of "green" actions people take, a new study by Porter Novelli and George Mason University shows. According to the survey of more than 11,000 American adults and nearly 1,000 of their children, Democrats on average perform only about 15 percent more "green" actions than Republicans, despite great differences in the two parties' perceptions of danger related to global warming.

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