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malaise

(269,201 posts)
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 07:46 PM Dec 2016

Oops Groper Don the Con's threats to Climate Change workers blow up bigtime

Department Of Energy Defies Trump, Won't Name Climate Change Workers
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/13/505440178/department-of-energy-defies-trump-wont-name-climate-change-workers
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The Department of Energy is refusing the Trump transition team's request to name those who have worked on climate change within the department, because of concerns about what the incoming administration will do with the names. President-elect Donald Trump has denied climate change is real.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden tells our Newscast unit the request of such names was included in a 74-question document distributed to the agency's workforce. Jennifer says, "The Trump team wants the names of career employees and contractors who have attended U.N. climate talks over the past five years. It also wants emails about those meetings."

The full list of questions can be found here.

On Tuesday, the department released a statement saying the questionnaire had "unsettled" many in its workforce, that it would "be forthcoming with all [publicly] available information" but it would withhold "any individual names."

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Oops Groper Don the Con's threats to Climate Change workers blow up bigtime (Original Post) malaise Dec 2016 OP
Kudos to the Energy Dept. for not "naming names" in defiance of Trump's new McCarthyism brush Dec 2016 #1
I want a vociforous malaise Dec 2016 #2
And when he takes office? What then? Will there be a annabanana Dec 2016 #3
Scientists will wake up - like everyone else malaise Dec 2016 #4
This is insane. lindysalsagal Dec 2016 #5
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhm so is malaise Dec 2016 #6

malaise

(269,201 posts)
2. I want a vociforous
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 08:08 PM
Dec 2016

fight back from scientists in all spheres - and not just in the US. Fugg this stupid fascist.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
3. And when he takes office? What then? Will there be a
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 08:09 PM
Dec 2016

purge of scientists? Will non-partisan civil servant get canned for imagined slights to Trumplethinskin?

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