Most Texans — including a new majority of Republicans — support the state’s booming renewables industry and oppose the idea of state moves to quash it, a new poll has found.

The polling by Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation comes out amid a multifront push by suburban Texas Republican legislators to hamstring the growth of wind and solar in the state.

Texans “understand what is at stake,” CTEI state director Matt Welch said in a statement, supporting a wide range of common sense, market-driven solutions,” said Matt Welch, state director of CTEI. “By getting this right, Texas will remain a national leader in energy production and job creation.”

The survey of 1,000 likely voters with about a 4 percent margin of error was completed March 22-30. It found that 91 percent of Texans “strongly supported” landowners' ability to use wind and solar on their own land, or lease it to........

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