Given the challenge of passing comprehensive energy legislation—even with a Republican-controlled Congress—the executive branch has inherited a number of administrative decisions from the Obama Administration.

The Trump Administration still should do more than identify priorities. The administration, like any other, should develop a comprehensive energy strategy that identifies energy policy objectives and is clear about what problems it is trying to solve with government action.

Given the extent to which the energy landscape has shifted over the past decade, our nation’s energy policies are ripe for review and updating. With no new comprehensive energy legislation having passed during the Obama administration, the start of President Trump's term might appear to offer a new opportunity to propose comprehensive energy legislation to address our changing world.

The president can address climate change in the first year in a way that reaches across the aisle, speaks to all Americans, and brings us together. Although it may appear unlikely, Trump has a great opportunity to rethink how Americans frame climate change.

In his first year, President Donald Trump should develop a charter for, assign priorities to, and establish by executive order a new presidential commission on bioethics.

Rather than uniting the nation, President Trump's first weeks in office seem to have deepened polarization and anxiety. How he responds to those expectations and anxieties will set the tone for his term of office.