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Earlier this month, President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address in Washington, DC. He touched on a number of key energy topics, which the U.S. Department of Energy has put together into a short “supercut” video.
In his remarks, the President spoke about the nation’s growing wind and solar power industries, decreasing dependence on imported oil, and the United States’s role in the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. For more details, check out the video below: