Trump's "Backward-Looking" Speech Ignores Climate Change, While Pushing for "Beautiful, Clean Coal"
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#3ER1Z)
On Tuesday night at President Trump's first State of the Union, there were two words conspicuously missing from Trump's lengthy address: climate change. Trump did, however, celebrate "beautiful, clean coal" and the rollback of key regulations to protect the environment. For more on the State of the Union, we speak with 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and with The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel.