Department of Energy
See also Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.
Timeline
| 2016.12.09 | Trump transition team seeks names of Energy Department employees involved in climate meetings washingtonpost.com |
| 2016.12.09 | Trump transition team wants Energy Department officials to give list of employees who have worked to combat climate change. cbsnews.com (See also Presidential Transition) The transition team created a questionnaire of 74 questions for Energy Department officials to identify certain people who helped Obama's policies |
| 2016.12.13 | Energy Department refuses to name climate change workers for Trump transition team. washingtonpost.com |
| 2016.12.13 | Trump picks ex-governor of Texas Rick Perry for Energy Secretary nytimes.com (See also Rick Perry) |
| 2016.12.14 | Trump team disavows questionnaire asking for names of Energy climate change workers. cnn.com |
| 2016.12.14 | U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issues statement criticizing Rick Perry appointment murray.senate.gov (See also Rick Perry) |
| 2017.01.19 | Energy Department nominee Rick Perry, who'd previously called climate change a "contrived, phony mess," said he now believes human-made climate change exists. reuters.com (See also RIck Perry) |
| 2017.02.23 | Eric Trump’s brother-in-law lands an Energy Department job. axios.com (See also Nepotism, Eric Trump) |
| 2017.03.10 | Trump Campaign Worker who was hired to the Department of Energy despite lack of qualifications is fired over Muslim genocide Tweets. buzzfeed.com |
| 2017.03.29 | The Department of Energy's climate office bans use of phrase "climate change" in any written document. politico.com (See also First 100 Days, Climate Change) |
| 2017.03.30 | The Energy Department climate office bans the use of the phrase ‘climate change.’ politico.com (See also Climate Change, Environment, First 100 Days) The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words "climate" in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies… |
| 2017.06.15 | The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month. nytimes.com (See also Climate Change, Rick Perry, Environment) |
| 2017.06.19 | Like EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Energy Secretary Rick Perry says he does not believe CO2 emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change. cnbc.com (See also Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency) This is, of course, at odds with at odds with the EPA, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |