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December 12, 2016

Trump Transition Team Questions Energy Department Workers on Climate
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Trump's comments came just days after the Trump transition team sent a
memo to employees of the Department of Energy questioning their work on
climate change. The 74-page questionnaire requests, among other things,
information on which employees attended U.N. climate talks, and demands
justification for a program tracking the nation's carbon dioxide
pollution. One Energy Department employee, speaking anonymously, told
Reuters, "This feels like the first draft of an eventual political
enemies list."


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