Most Americans Wanted The U.S. To Stay In The Paris Agreement. Will It Matter In 2020?

Most Americans probably weren’t thrilled on Thursday when President Donald Trump announced he plans to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Sixty-one percent of Americans wanted the U.S. to stay in the Paris accord, according to a HuffPost/YouGov survey taken before Trump’s decision was announced, and just 17 percent wanted the U.S. to withdraw. Democrats were the staunchest supporters of the historic climate pact, saying by a 76-point margin that...