Environmental legislation in the Fourth Transformation: progress or setbacks?

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the legislative performance in the LXII and LXIV periods regarding the environmental issue considering the campaign promises of the current national government. The methodology that was used was through intentional sampling taking as a source the parliamentary groups that were organized in the LXIII and LXIV legislatures. The originality of this article consists in being the first in Mexico to analyze and compare environmental legislative proposals from two six-year terms with different political regimes. As a result, it is observed that there is an increase in the number of environmental proposals, although a large part of these are not approved or discussed. It is concluded that although there is a notable effort in terms of new environmental legislative proposals, most of them do not touch fundamental issues to prevent the serious problems and risks that our country currently faces.