… The unifying thread through Trump’s environmental agenda is an attempt to resurrect an earlier energy order centered on maximizing fossil-fuel production and marginalizing considerations about the carbon emissions linked to climate change. … It’s difficult to overstate how directly this revanchist agenda collides with both the marketplace and policy […] Read more »
Paris Agreement enjoys more support than Donald Trump
President Trump reportedly intends to withdraw from the Paris Climate agreement. His advisors may have told him that it will be a popular move. This is what they told him about firing FBI Director James Comey, and he seems to have believed it. This could become yet another self-inflicted wound, […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Trump approval down, voters support special counsel on Russia
American voters disagree with President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, think the dismissal was for self-serving reasons, and approve of a special counsel being appointed to investigate Russian government efforts to influence the election and the Trump campaign. In addition, a majority opposes the Republican plan to replace […] Read more »
Public Opinion Context: Trump’s Trip to Middle East and Europe
Donald Trump’s first overseas trip as president will take him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican, then to Brussels for a major NATO meeting and back to Italy for a G7 summit. The world is watching with particular interest to see how his administration, subject to serial and serious […] Read more »
Should the US stay in the Paris Agreement? A majority of Democrats and Republicans think so
Protestors gathered in D.C. on April 29 for People’s Climate March. 9602574@N02/flickr, CC BY Ed Maibach, George Mason University; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University, and Jennifer Marlon, Yale University In December 2015, officials from nearly every country in the world met in Paris to negotiate a global agreement to limit […] Read more »
Americans Divided on Whether Recent Science Protests Will Benefit Scientists’ Causes
In the wake of last month’s marches for science and climate in Washington and around the country, Americans are divided in their support of the events’ goals and their sense of whether it will make a difference. In particular, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that most Democrats and […] Read more »