Wow. Energy Department says it WON'T provide individual names who worked on climate polices to Trump

[kpete]

The Department of Energy will not provide the names of staffers who worked on climate issues to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, a spokesman for the department told POLITICO Tuesday.

The Trump transition team submitted 74 questions to DOE last week, including two which asked for identities of staffers who worked on Obama administration climate policy efforts.


"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," DOE spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder said in an email.

Burnham-Snyder said questions from Trump's team had "left many in our workforce unsettled."

"We are going to respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department," he said.



http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/energy-department-staffers-names-list-232566
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/12/13/energy-dept-rejects-trumps-request-to-name-climate-change-workers-who-remain-worried/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.344ca1835d58

[niyad]

1. RESIST!!!!!!

[spanone]

2. i don't blame them one bit.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Sigh.

Once Rick Perry (or whoever) gets confirmed, they likely won't have any choice but to identify the employees.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. I hope you're wrong.

My impression, reading responses from Sandia Labs and Los Alamos National Labs, is that the people running them simply won't do that. For one thing, they've said, they do not collect some of the information requested, such as what professional groups employees belong to.

[longship]

4. Note: The DOE operates the nation's nuclear labs.

That includes securing fissionable material, including weapons grade materials. I worked at one of the labs in the 70's. Needless to say, security was tight.

Having Rick Perry as Secy of DOE scares me to fucking Hell.

The two DOE secretaries under Obama were both physicists, one of whom earned a physics Nobel prize.

We are in big poo poo here.

[flamingdem]

5. Can't wait until Rick Perry is in charge of the DOE

and the nukes. He's so stable and smart!

[longship]

7. Well that depends on whether he has his smart glasses on.

On the other hand, maybe it would better that the dude in charge of fissionable nuclear materials understand fucking physics.

Just my opinion.

[drray23]

11. I am a senior scientist (nuclear physicist) in one of these labs

We are not amused about having him as our doe secretary. If you compare his resume with that of the last two its pretty dismal.. We are hoping that he is not realizing the magnitude of what we do at the DOE. These politicians, they hear "energy" and they think climate change and solar panels. The vast majority of what we do is nuclear physics.
The DOE budget was around 17 billions last year, similar to NASA's 16 billions. We just past a 682 billions appropriation bill for DOD. Its ridiculous that we can't afford a few billions for research. We are getting guidance regarding budgets that we have to consider 10 % reductions. If that is the case, we will have to lay off scientists or close one of the 17 labs . Many scientists will just pack up and go work in europe or elsewhere. I know I would.

[longship]

12. That's what everybody should fear.

That nobody in the Drumpf administration has any idea of what any of these federal agencies really do, let alone why they exist.

Having worked at a DOE national lab (many years ago) I am shocked that our new idiot pretzeldent-elect seemingly does not understand what the DOE actually does. So he appoints a guy who cannot even remember that the DOE is one of the agencies he wants to eliminate.

This is not going to end well.

My best to you.

[murielm99]

14. My son works at one of those labs,

as did my late son-in-law. This is getting scary.

[lastlib]

17. Yeah, I DREAD him being in charge of work with subatomic particles.....

GOD HELP US!! It only takes one 'Oops', and we're all TOAST!

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Dick Cheney did the same thing. It all came out eventually anyway

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4647599

[C Moon]

8. Trump will get Russia to find this information.

[Hekate]

9. KnR for the heroes

[NewJeffCT]

10. No to the black list

it's a daily outrage from Team Trump...

[bdamomma]

13. good for them

DO NOT DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO THESE PEOPLE.

[Mendocino]

16. "Nice jobs you got there,

sure would be a shame if something happened to them".

Gangster politics