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Dept. of Energy Reportedly Refuses to Give Trump Names of Employees Working on Climate Change
Mediaite ^ | December 13, 2016 | Justin Baragona

Posted on 12/13/2016 9:03:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It was reported last week that President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team had sent the Department of Energy a list of 74 questions. In that list, the DOE was asked to provide names of employees who had worked on President Barack Obama’s climate change policy.

This action brought up concerns that the incoming POTUS and his administration may be looking to not only dismantle many of the actions Obama has set forth to study and combat climate change, but to also push out federal employees and contractors who had worked on those programs. Scientists have signed petitions to call on Trump to respect the integrity of science and not rid government agencies of researchers who are in disagreement with Trump’s vision....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; doe; energy; mutiny; trump
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Maybe they're like other Democrats who think that someone will use magic to keep him from being sworn-in.
1 posted on 12/13/2016 9:03:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

70% working on making it cooler and 30% working on making it hotter.


2 posted on 12/13/2016 9:04:15 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oooo....this will not go well.....for them.


3 posted on 12/13/2016 9:04:17 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s only president elect. He can fire them for insubordination if they don’t tell him after inauguration.


4 posted on 12/13/2016 9:05:23 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s only president elect. He can fire them for insubordination if they don’t tell him after inauguration.


5 posted on 12/13/2016 9:05:24 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I know who they are: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy.


6 posted on 12/13/2016 9:05:37 AM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They work on climate change meaning they do absolutely nothing. Buh-bye.


7 posted on 12/13/2016 9:06:42 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No list? Fire them all. Problem solved.


8 posted on 12/13/2016 9:06:44 AM PST by monkeybrau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That makes it even easier. It only means more jobs for good people.


9 posted on 12/13/2016 9:07:12 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: choctaw man

Just defund the entire department. If it’s settled science, no need to keep going.


10 posted on 12/13/2016 9:07:22 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Maybe he can file a FOA on them.


11 posted on 12/13/2016 9:07:32 AM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: monkeybrau

I laugh at these frightened anti-science nitwits, I hope they are all fired on January 21st.


12 posted on 12/13/2016 9:08:17 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: monkeybrau

Only if they also lose the pensions!


13 posted on 12/13/2016 9:08:46 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a federal agency. Budgets and org charts and position descriptions are documented and part of the public record.

Search on the word “green” and cut whatever you find.


14 posted on 12/13/2016 9:08:55 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: spokeshave

On second thoughts...just double up on the landing team


15 posted on 12/13/2016 9:09:10 AM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
NUKE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL DEPT OF ENERGY!!

The Constitution gives the feds no authority over "energy." Energy is a states' issue.

16 posted on 12/13/2016 9:09:33 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Refuses?
When the boss asks and you refuse that sounds like grounds for dismissal.


17 posted on 12/13/2016 9:09:55 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Own a rifle. Be an American.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they are smart they will be gone before the 20th.

IF!


18 posted on 12/13/2016 9:10:21 AM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rick Perry wanted to abolish the Department of Energy.


19 posted on 12/13/2016 9:10:43 AM PST by FewsOrange
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To: SERKIT

I can hear the Donald going boardroom on them now:

Okay fellas, if you won’t provide me with the information I have requested, I can only assume that you ALL were working on it.

So guess what . . .


20 posted on 12/13/2016 9:10:48 AM PST by t4texas (No koolaid for me. Thanks!)
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