Orange Fuckstick Demands Names Of DOE Staff Who Attended Climate Conferences, Built Climate Policy

[hatrack]

he Trump transition team has asked for a list of Energy Department employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings and worked on key Obama administration climate policies, including the social cost of carbon, according to a Bloomberg report.

The requests, detailed in a memo sent to the Energy Department by the Trump transition team, suggests that President-elect Trump is not backing down from his campaign promises to completely abandon the Obama administration’s approach to U.S. climate and energy policies, and instead adopt a policy that is much friendlier to fossil fuels and much more hostile to regulations that seek to curb greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

The social cost of carbon is a metric used to calculate the concrete benefits of certain climate policies — basically, the economic damages associated with an increase in carbon emissions. Right now, the social cost of carbon is used in various kinds of rule-making, from the Department of Energy to the EPA. But Republican lawmakers have long been critical of the metric, and Donald Trump’s energy advisers have made no secret of their desire to kill the metric altogether.

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According to two Energy Department employees, who spoke with Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity, the memo sent to agency staff “unsettled” many within the agency. But a person close to Trump’s transition team told Bloomberg that the memo was merely meant to “ensure transparency on the formation of existing, Obama-era policy.” In addition to seeking information about specific staff and contractors, the memo also singled out the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) unit, which has helped support research and development of clean energy projects. According to Bloomberg, the transition team asked for “a complete list of ARPA-E’s projects,” as well as specific information on “Mission Innovation,”an agency initiative meant to accelerate the public and private transition to clean energy, and “Clean Energy Ministerial,” a global forum aimed at advancing clean energy technologies.

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-transition-team-singles-out-energy-department-employees-f6c627624ef#.xn5d1vtg4

[DetlefK]

1. They are looking for something they could spin into a scandal.

[riversedge]

2. Not necessarily. I think they are too lazy to do their own reseach and -in the name of "transparenc

y" will and are making demands. I would delay any requests. Let the new folks to their own digging.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. They are targeting DOE employees

and that is scary. Real scary.
It says, in black and white, how dangerous he is to the planet's survival.

This:

The transition team list also asked how to keep open aging nuclear power plants, restart the controversial Yucca mountain nuclear waste site shelved by President Obama, and support the licensing of small modular reactors.

[mackdaddy]

3. Trump's version of the Mao Cultural revolution.

Even someone wearing glasses may be an intellectual and believe in global warming, and must be purged.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. Good God!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/trump-team-s-memo-hints-at-broad-shake-up-of-u-s-energy-policy

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Trump Team’s Memo Hints at Broad Shake-Up of U.S. Energy Policy[/font]

by Catherine Traywick and Jennifer A Dlouhy
December 8, 2016 — 11:34 PM EST[font size=4]

• Advisers seeking to identify staff involved in climate policy
• Document drills down into agency operations with 65 questions

[/font][font size=3]Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are developing plans to reshape Energy Department programs, help keep aging nuclear plants online and identify staff who played a role in promoting President Barack Obama’s climate agenda.

The transition team has asked the agency to list employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop the Obama administration’s social cost of carbon metrics, used to estimate and justify the climate benefits of new rules. The advisers are also seeking information on agency loan programs, research activities and the basis for its statistics, according to a five-page internal document circulated by the Energy Department on Wednesday. The document lays out 65 questions from the Trump transition team, sources within the agency said.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to eliminate government waste, rescind "job-killing" regulations and cancel the Paris climate accord in which nearly 200 countries pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Trump, though, hasn’t detailed specific plans for federal agencies. The document obtained by Bloomberg offers clues on where his administration may be headed on energy policy, based on the nature of questions involving the agency’s research agenda, nuclear program and national labs.

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The document also signals which of the department’s agencies could face the toughest scrutiny under the new administration. Among them: the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a 7-year-old unit that has been a critical instrument for the Obama administration to advance clean-energy technologies.

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[Boomer]

6. When do the purges begin?

The only question is whether it's in the first 100 days or the first year.