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Megan McArdle

On Climate Change, Who Will Censure the Censors?

If you dislike Trump's witch hunt at the Department of Energy, defend climate-change deniers as well.
Climate-change warriors, climate-change deniers.

Climate-change warriors, climate-change deniers.

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The Department of Energy has balked at a request from the Trump transition team to provide the names of all department employees or contractors who attended UN global climate talks in the last five years.

"We are going to respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department," spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder told Reuters. "We will be forthcoming with all publicly available information with the transition team. We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team."