Americans Worrying For Environment Issues

Between 2004 and 2008, the proportion of Americans expressing "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of worry about the quality of the environment increased from 62% to 74%. Nonetheless, when asked to name the country's top problem in early 2009, only about 2% mentioned environmental issues.
In 2008, 67% of Americans believed that the government was spending too little to reduce pollution and 7% thought it was spending too much.