With Earth Day just behind us and Arbor Day ahead, most voters think the environment in this country is doing well.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters now rate the quality of the environment in the United States as good or excellent, while just 13% give it poor marks. That’s the highest positive rating for the environment’s quality yet. Between 2013 and 2015, that number remained in the mid- to high-40s. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 19-20, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.