Resource Type: Research & Articles

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including national polling about climate change and its impacts, national polling about extreme weather and congressional action on climate change, and new polling in New York State about the proposed end of gas hookups in new construction projects.

Gillion’s research examines whether a protest can make a real change – and the short answer is that it does. Looking at the effect of civil rights protests from the 1960’s–1990’s on Congress, he found that protest had a small but detectable effect on legislators. And he identified factors that increased the salience of a protest to politicians.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on climate change as an issue priority, President Biden’s handling of climate change and environmental issues, and the establishment of a Civilian Climate Corps.

Read on for a summary of the big ideas and trends on our minds at the Lab as we reflect on everything that happened in 2022 and look forward to 2023.