Posted on 12/13/2016 10:24:13 AM PST by BJ1
The Department of Energy said Tuesday it will reject the request by President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to name staffers who worked on climate change programs.
Energy spokesman Eben Burnhan-Snyder said the agency received “significant feedback” from workers regarding a questionnaire from the transition team that leaked last week.
“Some of the questions asked left many in our workforce unsettled,” Snyder said.
The survey for department leadership included more than 70 questions regarding what the agency does, its workforce, costs, professional affiliations and more.
But it also asked for a list of employees who worked on various climate change priorities in President Obama’s administration, including the Paris climate agreement and the social cost of carbon, an accounting measure for the costs of climate change.
That led to fears that Trump’s administration was undertaking a “witch hunt” to single out those workers.
“We are going to respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department,” Burnham-Snyder said in the Tuesday statement, first reported by The Washington Post.
“We will be forthcoming with all publicly-available information with the transition team. We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team.”
The head of the union for workers at the Energy Department's Washington headquarters had also expressed concern with the questionnaire.
“My members are upset and have questions about what this means. These are all civil servants who do their jobs,” Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement.
“They have no wish to be caught up in political winds — they are nonpartisan employees — scientists, engineers, statisticians, economists and financial experts — who were hired for their knowledge and they bring their talent and experience to the job every day,” he said, adding that the union “will do all it can to ensure that merit system rules are followed.”
Laws and regulations regarding civil service workers make it illegal to fire or punish workers for political purposes, even when an administration changes.
FIRE THEM ALL.
Fire them all
Apparently these little snowflakes have never read Sun Tzu and the Lesson of the Concubines...
Know what’s “unsettling”? Unemployment.
told me all I need to know
fire them all
CLOSE THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT!
I guess we’ll see what size cojones Rick Perry has.
Well, I can understand it from a certain point of view. If your boss tells you to do this project, as long as it is not illegal, you do it. You don’t have to agree with the politics. A more appropriate question would have been, “how much resources have been expended on this climate change research”, not the names of the individual employees. Or, who authorized this research?
Then - bring them up on House charges...failure to obey an Executive Branch order - bankrupt them in atty fees and then have a cocktail party to celebrate and serve harp seal meatballs...Im sick of this shit
Start at the top by immediately firing all of the political appointees on day 1.
On day 2, install new people at the top and reorganize everything below... Everything that isn’t just eliminated, that is....
If the department is kept at all, staff and fund it at, say, the 1997 level; 20 year roll back.
No response? You’re fired!
Eben Burnhan-Snyder told you all you needed to know. So I googled the name. It’s a man.
Scratching head, I don’t know any men with hyphenated surnames.
Be Like Reagan fire them all
Secretary Perry’s first directive: Answer the questionnaire. Second directive, If you don’t, get out.
Rinse, wash, repeat.
Come Jan 20th or shortly after Rick Perry will be in charge and those names will be forthcoming very quickly.
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