It only took two days, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) flatly refused to give the Trump transition team the names of its staffers who have attended climate change meetings of any kind.
The Trumperos had sent a list of 74 questions to the EPA wanting to know who went where and when, and what the meeting was about. The clear purpose -- although denied -- was to compile a list of those sympathetic to the concept of climate change so they could be purged from government once the Administration changes hands and the Department of Energy comes under the supervision of Rick Perry, a climate change denier who is the Trump choice to head the agency.
The transition team backed off.
Meanwhile, opposition is building against other Trumpian ideas that would upend or shut down many other government programs.
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