State of the Union address and the environment | 89.3 KPCC

State of the Union address and the environment | 89.3 KPCC

“The ‘C-Word’ Vanishes,” is how NY Times’ environmental opinion blogger Andrew Revkin titled his post about the speech. “The ‘C-word,’ climate, appears to have become to the Beltway what the ‘P-word,’ population, has been in climate treaty negotiations for a long time — unmentionable.” LA Times also noted the missing word: “[Obama] made no mention of climate change legislation, which business interests oppose and which stands little chance of passing in any case.