The Trump transition team signaled that it wanted to clean up the Department of Energy of people who worked on climate change with a controversial 74-point questionnaire intended to weed them out. Today the department said they will NOT be turning over that info:
The Department of Energy said it won’t comply with a request from the Trump transition team to provide names of employees who worked on the Obama administration’s climate policy efforts.
“The Department of Energy received significant feedback from our workforce throughout the department, including the National Labs, following the release of the transition team’s questions. Some of the questions asked left many in our workforce unsettled,” Eben Burnham-Snyder, director of public affairs at the Energy Department said. “Our career workforce, including our contractors and employees at our labs, comprise the backbone of DOE and the important work our department does to benefit the American people. We are going to respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department.”
“We will be forthcoming with all publicly available information with the transition team,” he said. “We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team.”
Here’s Andrea Mitchell freaking out over it on MSNBC:
Can they really keep that info from the president-elect? Doesn’t it seem like it will be readily available once they take over?