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Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase 'climate change'
https://secure.politico.com/story/2017/03/energy-department-climate-change-phrases-banned-236655[font face=Serif][font size=5]Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’[/font]
[font size=4] The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the word ‘climate’ in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.[/font]
By Eric Wolff | 03/29/17 03:51 PM EDT | Updated 03/29/17 06:11 PM EDT
[font size=3]A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" or "Paris Agreement" in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO.
Employees of DOE’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy learned of the ban at a meeting Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order at EPA headquarters to reverse most of former President Barack Obama's climate regulatory initiatives. Officials at the State Department and in other DOE offices said they had not been given a banned words list, but they had started avoiding climate-related terms in their memos and briefings given the new administration's direction on climate change.
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A DOE spokeswoman denied there had been a new directive. "No words or phrases have been banned for this office or anyone in the department,” said DOE spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler.
Another DOE source in a different office said that although there had been no formal instructions about climate-related language in their office there was a general sense that it's better to avoid certain hot-button terms in favor of words like "jobs" and "infrastructure."
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[font size=4] The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the word ‘climate’ in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.[/font]
By Eric Wolff | 03/29/17 03:51 PM EDT | Updated 03/29/17 06:11 PM EDT
[font size=3]A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" or "Paris Agreement" in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO.
Employees of DOE’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy learned of the ban at a meeting Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order at EPA headquarters to reverse most of former President Barack Obama's climate regulatory initiatives. Officials at the State Department and in other DOE offices said they had not been given a banned words list, but they had started avoiding climate-related terms in their memos and briefings given the new administration's direction on climate change.
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A DOE spokeswoman denied there had been a new directive. "No words or phrases have been banned for this office or anyone in the department,” said DOE spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler.
Another DOE source in a different office said that although there had been no formal instructions about climate-related language in their office there was a general sense that it's better to avoid certain hot-button terms in favor of words like "jobs" and "infrastructure."
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