Though the focus of the recent midterm elections was largely on potential shifts of power in the U.S. House and Senate, a number of states had environment and energy issues on their ballots....
Happy Election Day! Our recently updated Yale Climate Opinion Maps allow us to analyze gaps between public opinion and political will at sub-national scales, making it easier to explore the role...
Our recently updated Yale Climate Opinion Maps allow us to analyze gaps between public opinion and political will at sub-national scales, allowing an exploration of the role climate change and...
2017 has proven to be a pivotal year in the global human struggle to adequately reduce emissions from heat-trapping gases that fuel climate change. The human and political aspect of this struggle...
This month, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era policy to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The Clean Power Plan is the...
President Nixon signing the National Environmental Policy Act (1969) – National Archives The way that climate change has been approached in President Trump’s administration might suggest...
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017 has so far been the second warmest year in the recorded history of the planet. That means this year will extend the record...
Trump Can't Cancel the Paris Agreement, and Americans Want the U.S. to Stay Franz Hochstrasser, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies There has been much discussion of...
This blog post is written by Sophie Wenzlau, third year law student at UC Davis. On March 28, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to gut...
This blog post was written by Nathan Lobel, Yale College '17. As those familiar with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication know, our research goes beyond whether people believe that...