Claims: US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive
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- title: US public still favours action on climate change despite Trump’s fossil fuel drive Source
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/17/climate-change-public-opinion-trump-fossil-fuel Source
- summary: Two-thirds of Americans say they are worried about climate but level of media coverage does not reflect this US political and media discourse has drifted away from the climate crisis amid a frontal assault by Donald Trump upon policies to limit global heating and the president’s pugnacious demands to “drill, baby, drill” for more oil and gas. Yet while elite attention on climate has waned , even among some previously vocal Democrats who have wound back on criticism of the fossil fuels that are o… Source
- published: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:31 GMT Source