The Trump transition team has disavowed a questionnaire that went to Department of Energy leadership, ostensibly from that transition team:
'The survey of 74 questions, which the Energy Department received last Tuesday, asked for the names of workers and contractors who had attended U.N. climate meetings. It also asked for the names of those who had attended meetings on the social cost of carbon, a metric that federal agencies use in formulating regulations on the energy business.'
The Trump team sent out a brief news blurb: "The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol. The person who sent it has been properly counseled."
Yeah, that disavowal would be a lot more convincing if this questionnaire hadn't been gone out and been made last week and faced DoE, public, Congressional, and White House criticism for it since then.
Trump team disavows survey seeking names of climate workers
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency.
