DOE Global Warming Supporters Are Going To Be Under Scrutinity

Trump Team Asks for Identities of DOE Employees Working Climate Change

Progressives who worship at the altar of environmentalism are growing increasingly worried that President-elect Donald Trump, a known climate change skeptic, may undo much of the work they have done over the past eight years to advance their green agenda at the expense of the American economy.

Perhaps adding fuel to those fears was a questionnaire circulated within the Department of Energy by Trump’s transition team, as reported recently by The New York Times.

The 74-point questionnaire, which can be viewed right here, seemed to indicate a significant shift in policy direction and a shrinking of the agency, with more of a focus on nuclear energy and a move toward the commercialization and privatization of scientific research efforts in the energy field.

Enviro-statists who have hitched themselves to the “man-made climate change” wagon are especially concerned, as the questionnaire requests the names of employees and contractors who have taken part in international climate change policy conferences and discussions, as well as the documents and emails associated with those discussions.

Though it is not at all unusual for an incoming administration to query particular departments and agencies about the current policies in place, it is somewhat atypical to seek the identification of specific employees or contractors working on particular issues, which some believe could signal that something of a purge of the department of devoted climate change activist believers may be forthcoming.

“A lot of these questions make perfect sense,” said Jonathan Levy, former deputy chief of staff of the DOE under President Obama. “They have to get their heads around what responsibilities they will have and don’t have. The thing that’s unsettling are the questions that appear to be targeting personnel for doing public service.”

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