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Seedersandleechers

(3,044 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:43 AM Dec 2016

Trump Teams Memo Hints at Broad Shake-Up of U.S. Energy Policy

Source: Bloomberg Newsm

Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are developing plans to reshape Energy Department programs, help keep aging nuclear plants online and identify staff who played a role in promoting President Barack Obama’s climate agenda.

The transition team has asked the agency to list employees and contractors who attended United Nations climate meetings, along with those who helped develop the Obama administration’s social cost of carbon metrics, used to estimate and justify the climate benefits of new rules. The advisers are also seeking information on agency loan programs, research activities and the basis for its statistics, according to a five-page internal document circulated by the Energy Department on Wednesday. The document lays out 65 questions from the Trump transition team, sources within the agency said.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to eliminate government waste, rescind "job-killing" regulations and cancel the Paris climate accord in which nearly 200 countries pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Trump, though, hasn’t detailed specific plans for federal agencies. The document obtained by Bloomberg offers clues on where his administration may be headed on energy policy, based on the nature of questions involving the agency’s research agenda, nuclear program and national labs.


Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/trump-team-s-memo-hints-at-broad-shake-up-of-u-s-energy-policy

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Trump Teams Memo Hints at Broad Shake-Up of U.S. Energy Policy (Original Post) Seedersandleechers Dec 2016 OP
Every day the Trump nightmare gets worse. -nt CrispyQ Dec 2016 #1
beginning to be handmade34 Dec 2016 #3
"They're making a list; they're checking it twice. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2016 #2
Wow ... not just an Enemies List, but one specifically for reality-based civil servants. eppur_se_muova Dec 2016 #4
God DK504 Dec 2016 #6
So, their job description is an "unassembled list of duties." Hangingon Dec 2016 #11
"Eliminate waste" by purging any sensible rational employees IronLionZion Dec 2016 #5
Herr Trump's purge meanwile aging reactors simmer & boil... Historic NY Dec 2016 #7
And just think come December 19, 2016 (538) human beings are going to submit on paper turbinetree Dec 2016 #8
well, Hillary did send emails from a private server NewJeffCT Dec 2016 #13
And now we have just been informed turbinetree Dec 2016 #21
Drink frackwater and die, Trumpanzees! muntrv Dec 2016 #9
But Ivanka had a sad about climate change with Al Gore. nt Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #10
This is so vile and evil bucolic_frolic Dec 2016 #12
Everything dangerous, dirty, unclean and inimical to human life is what we will get. lark Dec 2016 #14
The Purge begins. WhiteTara Dec 2016 #15
Soon the Purge wont be just a movie anymore. Initech Dec 2016 #16
nor the horror that is Turkey right now. WhiteTara Dec 2016 #17
Trump is taking from the world's dictators. Initech Dec 2016 #19
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength and one more Javaman Dec 2016 #18
Trump will regret this when all his coastal properties are underwater. lagomorph777 Dec 2016 #20

eppur_se_muova

(36,258 posts)
4. Wow ... not just an Enemies List, but one specifically for reality-based civil servants.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:52 AM
Dec 2016

Sounds like tRump is planning to outdo Nixon from the very beginning.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
6. God
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:59 AM
Dec 2016

They can't fire civil servants. Sweet mother. What's he going to do relagate them to storage room B?

Hangingon

(3,071 posts)
11. So, their job description is an "unassembled list of duties."
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:42 PM
Dec 2016

They spend their time reading WSJ, NYT and WaPo. The pay check keeps coming.

turbinetree

(24,694 posts)
8. And just think come December 19, 2016 (538) human beings are going to submit on paper
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:08 PM
Dec 2016

who they want to run the country over 350 million people, just like 538 kingdoms and 309 of them with no conscience, just fascists supporting a megalomaniac, narcissistic, sociopath, serial predator, that will try and "normalize" a fraud, because they are "right wing republicans" that hates this republic




NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
13. well, Hillary did send emails from a private server
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:00 PM
Dec 2016

thank goodness she lost! That was certainly a lot more important than epic corruption and conflicts of interest, not to mention sexual assault, possible rape and outright misogyny and racism.



turbinetree

(24,694 posts)
21. And now we have just been informed
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 12:33 AM
Dec 2016

that McConnell and his gang of traitors, had been sitting on information that Russia did a lot more damaged in the election, and that the traitor McConnell said that if Obama were to make the CIA information public that he would come out and say that it was partisan. This is not a partisan issue, this is a act of war from a foreign government

I saw what happened on t.v with Watergate, I saw on t.v the Iran/ Contra crap.

And I am so, pardon the expression pissed off, that a United States Senator basically told that White House, that if you said anything about this information from the CIA that state actor was meddling around in an election, that they would deny the information>
This just reinforces my belief that republicans should be barred from public office-----------------they do not give damn about this country.


I am so outraged that they knew before hand that it occurred and they knew when citizens where going to the polls and did not inform the people.

Mitch McConnell is a f***ing traitor, this is beyond e-mails and a private server








bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
12. This is so vile and evil
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:53 PM
Dec 2016

GW Bush - John Roberts - Citizens United - Koch Bros - Trump

Trump is a puppet front man

He's not for change, or working people

He's the same old GOP

These policies are a death sentence for the entire planet, against
the will of the majority

Evil. It's a purge worthy of Joe Stalin's USSR. America did not vote
for radical change, he has no mandate with 45% of the vote

What an overbearing fool

lark

(23,091 posts)
14. Everything dangerous, dirty, unclean and inimical to human life is what we will get.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:20 PM
Dec 2016

As long as it helps his companies, or those of people like the Kochs who will pay him $ to do this, he's in. What he doesn't give a shit about is health and survivability. He's too stupid and self-satisified to pay attention to any nuances of global warming. Of course, when it affects his property, like in Ireland, he's all about global warming and trying to get their government to intervene on his behalf. I hope his land in Miami is one of the first to be drowned, followed immediately thereafter by the golf course in Ireland. I hope Ireland doesn't spend one red cent on this monster.

WhiteTara

(29,701 posts)
15. The Purge begins.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:20 PM
Dec 2016

Next it will academics and scientists and engineers. North Korea is their model of governing.

WhiteTara

(29,701 posts)
17. nor the horror that is Turkey right now.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:30 PM
Dec 2016

They have declared martial law, confiscated passports, recalled citizens and imprisoned tens of thousands of people Erdogan declares enemies of the state.

No, this is happening now in our country.

Initech

(100,060 posts)
19. Trump is taking from the world's dictators.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:41 PM
Dec 2016

Erdogan, Kim Jong Un, Kadyrov... it's getting scarier and scarier.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
20. Trump will regret this when all his coastal properties are underwater.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:52 PM
Dec 2016

Little Barron will have to swim to school.

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