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Trump Questionnaire: Planned Retaliation Against Energy Dept. Staff?

"Among the queries included in a questionnaire sent by President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to workers at the Department of Energy is a request for an inventory of all agency employees or contractors who attended meetings or conferences on climate change."

Source: NPR, 12/12/2016

"Donald Trump, in Louisiana, Says He Will End Energy Regulation"

"President-elect Donald J. Trump promised on Friday that his administration would strip away 'job-killing restrictions' on energy production and encourage the construction of refineries in the United States, as he campaigned for Republican candidates in a state heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry."

Source: NY Times, 12/12/2016

Rex Tillerson, Exxon CEO, Is Expected to Be Pick for Secretary of State

"Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, whose extensive deal-making for the energy giant has plunged him into global politics from Yemen to Russia, is expected to be offered the secretary of state post this weekend by President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to two people close to Mr. Trump’s transition team."

Source: NY Times, 12/12/2016

"Offshore Wind Project to Go Live as Industry Eyes Trump"

"In a few days, the water-bound wind turbines off of Rhode Island’s Block Island are expected to generate electricity commercially for the first time, and New Englanders are set to become the first in U.S. history to use electric power generated from an offshore wind turbine."

Source: Climate Central, 12/09/2016

Trump's EPA Pick May Struggle To Dismantle Obama's Environmental Legacy

"Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has fought President Barack Obama’s measures to curb climate change at every turn as attorney general of Oklahoma. Now he is hoping to take apart Obama's environmental legacy from the inside out, a task that could prove tougher than it sounds."

Source: Reuters, 12/09/2016

Clean Energy ‘Moving Forward’ Despite Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Experts Say

"President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice of a fossil-fuel advocate and climate-change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency comes at a moment when the American energy market has already shifted away from the most polluting fossil fuels, driven more by investors and economics than by federal regulations."

Source: NY Times, 12/09/2016

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