Trump team memo on climate change alarms Energy Department staff
Source: Reuters
President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers, alarming employees and advisors.
The memo sent to the Energy Department on Tuesday and seen by Reuters on Friday, contains 74 questions including a request for a list of all department employees and contractors who attended the annual global climate talks hosted by the United Nations within the last five years.
It asked for a list of all department employees or contractors who have attended any meetings on the social cost of carbon, a measurement that federal agencies use to weigh the costs and benefits of new energy and environment regulations. It also asked for all publications written by employees at the department's 17 national laboratories for the past three years.
"This feels like the first draft of an eventual political enemies list," said a Department of Energy employee, who asked not to be identified because he feared a reprisal by the Trump transition team."When Donald Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp it apparently was just to make room for witch hunts and it's starting here at the DOE and our 17 national labs," the employee said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-climate-idUSKBN13Y2R6
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(14,971 posts)I don't know but it's scary.
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(33 posts)Sounds like the Pol-Pot regime in Cambodia. Round up all the teachers and intellectuals to "re-education" farms where millions died. We have as a nation allowed a man who admires Putin and Kim jung Il to take over the most powerful position the planet...
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