What Science Issues President Trump Did — and Did Not — Address in This Year’s State of the Union
Science of the Union
By Kaitlin Sullivan
Science got a nod early on in Tuesday’s 2019 State of the Union address. “In the 20th century, America transformed science,” President Donald Trump said, emphasizing the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. Here are the other science and health topics he commented on during his second SOTU, in which he was tasked with reporting to Congress “such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
“We have unleashed a revelation in American energy. The United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.”
The country’s production and consumption of energy stood at the core of Trump’s 2016 campaign, when he vowed to “end the war on clean coal.” In Tuesday’s address, the president instead focused on other fossil fuels, stating that for the first time in 65 years, the United States is a net exporter of energy — oil and natural gas.
President Trump recently faced criticism for his failure to attend COP24, a key United Nations climate change conference held in Katowice…
