{"id":1004,"date":"2019-08-12T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2019-08-12T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:52:16","slug":"western-voters-care-more-about-climate-than-energy-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/stateoftherockies\/2019\/08\/12\/western-voters-care-more-about-climate-than-energy-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Western voters care more about climate than \u2018energy dominance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

HIGH COUNTRY NEWS<\/p>\n

DURANGO HERALD ONLINE<\/p>\n

By Nick Bowlin<\/p>\n

February 7, 2019<\/p>\n

According to a recent poll, voters across the West are substantially more worried about climate change now than they were just two years ago. What\u2019s more, a majority identify as \u201cconservationists.\u201d These attitudes are at odds with the priorities of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, which have included aggressively cutting environmental regulations while shrinking national monuments and encouraging fossil fuel production on public lands.<\/p>\n

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These findings come from Colorado College\u2019s annual Conservation in the West\u00a0<\/a>poll, which surveys residents in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming on issues of climate, energy and public lands. This year, a majority of the approximately 400 respondents in each state rated climate change a serious problem, and every state saw an increase in climate concern.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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