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See also Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

Timeline

2016.12.09Trump transition team seeks names of Energy Department employees involved in climate meetings washingtonpost.com
2016.12.09Trump 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
2016.12.13Energy Department refuses to name climate change workers for Trump transition team. washingtonpost.com
2016.12.13Trump picks ex-governor of Texas Rick Perry for Energy Secretary nytimes.com (See also Rick Perry)
2016.12.14Trump team disavows questionnaire asking for names of Energy climate change workers. cnn.com
2016.12.14U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issues statement criticizing Rick Perry appointment murray.senate.gov (See also Rick Perry)
2017.01.19Energy 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)
2017.02.23Eric Trump’s brother-in-law lands an Energy Department job. axios.com (See also Nepotism, Eric Trump)
2017.03.10Trump Campaign Worker who was hired to the Department of Energy despite lack of qualifications is fired over Muslim genocide Tweets. buzzfeed.com
2017.03.29The 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)
2017.06.15The 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)
2017.06.19Like 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.
2017.07.11Trump is aggressively scaling back government regulations out of public view and often by political appointees with deep industry ties and potential conflicts. propublica.org (See also Conflicts of Interest, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Education, Corruption)