Issue: Climate Policy

Hispanic voters don’t approve of Donald Trump’s environmental policies. Among Hispanics who voted in 2020, just 44% approve of Trump “cutting environmental regulations”. Broken down by ideology, 46% of liberal Hispanic voters but 59% of conservative Hispanic voters approve of Trump “cutting environmental regulations”.

This post includes a roundup of climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from this week’s public polls – including a lot of new polling on the Build Back Better plan, its climate and environmental provisions, and economic arguments in favor of the plan.

This post includes a roundup of climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from this week’s public polls – including new polling on the Build Back Better plan, climate agreements made at COP26, and young Americans’ climate attitudes.

Majorities of youth and young adults around the world are worried about climate change, report negative emotions related to the issue, and find government responses inadequate. In this study, youth or young adults were considered aged 16-25. 59% are very or extremely worried and 84% are at least moderately worried. More than 50% said they feel sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty. More than 45% said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning, and many reported a high number of negative thoughts about climate—for example, 75% said that they think the future is frightening, and 83% said that they think people have failed to take care of the planet). Further, most rated governmental responses to climate change negatively and reported greater feelings of betrayal than of reassurance.