Climate Change Conversations Are Targeted in Questionnaire to Energy Department
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/politics/climate-change-energy-department-donald-trump-transition.html
The questionnaire requests “a list of all Department of Energy employees or contractors who have attended any Interagency Working Group meetings” to design a measurement known as the Social Cost of Carbon, a figure used by the Obama administration to measure the economic effects of carbon dioxide pollution, and to justify the economic cost of #climate regulations. That question goes on to demand “a list of when those meetings were” as well as “emails associated with those meetings.”
A separate question asks for “a list of Department employees or contractors who attended any” United Nations climate change conference “in the last five years.” Still another inquires about which office led the department’s efforts to complete the five-nation nuclear weapons deal with Iran.
Even the Energy Information Administration, the department’s independent statistics office, was not immune. The questionnaire demands justification for the office’s measurements of the nation’s carbon dioxide pollution.
