Rick Perry to Head the Energy Department: Kiss Government Climate Science Goodbye
December 13, 2016 at 5:31 pm
When it comes to addressing climate change, the world had best not look to the U.S. for anything resembling sanity, much less leadership, for the next several years. Rick Perry, of all people, is Trump's choice to head the Energy Department, and I have no doubt that he will be confirmed. This is what we get in the fact-free world we now inhabit, where scientific consensus is mere opinion and everything is up for grabs:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u...spartandhp
Excerpts from the article:
"The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will not comply with a request from President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers."
"Reuters reported late Monday that former Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to be named by Trump to run the Energy Department. The agency employs more than 90,000 people working on nuclear weapons maintenance and research labs, nuclear energy, advanced renewable energy, batteries and climate science.
The memo sought 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.
Trump transition officials declined to comment on the memo.
"This feels like the first draft of an eventual political enemies list," a Department of Energy employee, who asked not to be identified because he feared a reprisal by the Trump transition team, had told Reuters."
Trump provides the perfect cover for the ideologues among the conservatives. While he keeps us distracted and amused/infuriated, they'll gut every federal agency that threatens their corporate narrative. They don't give a flying fuck about anything other than profit and power.
Way to go, America! We should be so proud.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u...spartandhp
Excerpts from the article:
"The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will not comply with a request from President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers."
"Reuters reported late Monday that former Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to be named by Trump to run the Energy Department. The agency employs more than 90,000 people working on nuclear weapons maintenance and research labs, nuclear energy, advanced renewable energy, batteries and climate science.
The memo sought 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.
Trump transition officials declined to comment on the memo.
"This feels like the first draft of an eventual political enemies list," a Department of Energy employee, who asked not to be identified because he feared a reprisal by the Trump transition team, had told Reuters."
Trump provides the perfect cover for the ideologues among the conservatives. While he keeps us distracted and amused/infuriated, they'll gut every federal agency that threatens their corporate narrative. They don't give a flying fuck about anything other than profit and power.
Way to go, America! We should be so proud.
