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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings
this article is some hours too old to appear in LBN, so I am putting it here.
This is the first salvo in the war on climate science. This is the start of a witch hunt.
Donald Trumps transition team has issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking agency officials to identify which employees and contractors have worked on forging an international climate pact as well as domestic efforts to cut the nations carbon output.
The questionnaire requests a list of those individuals who have taken part in international climate talks over the past five years and which programs within DOE are essential to meeting the goals of President Obamas Climate Action Plan.
Trump and his team have vowed to dismantle specific aspects of Obamas climate policies, and Trump has questioned the reality of climate change. The questionnaire, which one Energy Department official described as unusually intrusive and a matter for departmental lawyers, has raised concern that the Trump transition team is trying to figure out how to target the people, including civil servants, who have helped implement policies under Obama.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/09/trump-transition-team-for-energy-department-seeks-names-of-employees-involved-in-climate-meetings/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_climatescientists-1230p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d2fd83f01b10
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Trump transition team for Energy Department seeks names of employees involved in climate meetings (Original Post)
kwassa
Dec 2016
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)1. BIG RED FLAG
"Trump transition team is trying to figure out how to target the people, including civil servants, who have helped implement policies under Obama."
Give him these:
John Doe
Bluto bin Bulbo
Oliver Orangutan
underpants
(182,803 posts)2. Political enemies list
Plain and simple
kwassa
(23,340 posts)3. They are going after career civil servants, scientists ....
trying to turn science into a political item. Fake science, like fake news.