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) |
| 2017.06.15 | 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. |
| 2017.07.11 | Trump 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) |
| 2017.08.25 | The Department of Energy funded a Boston researcher's project but asked that she remove references to "global warming" and "climate change" in her description of it. buzzfeed.com (See also Climate Change, Environment, Censorship) |
| 2017.11.02 | Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested Thursday that expanding the use of fossil fuels could help prevent sexual assault. thehill.com (See also Administration Errors, Rick Perry) |
| 2018.01.02 | The Trump administration is poised to ask Congress for deep budget cuts to the Energy Department’s renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, slashing them by 72 percent overall in fiscal 2019. washingtonpost.com (See also Climate Change, Environment, Rick Perry) |
| 2018.02.16 | The Department of Energy violated the law by indefinitely putting on hold four rules requiring air conditioners, boilers, and other products to use less energy, a federal judge recently ruled. buzzfeed.com (See also Legal Issues) |