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Rick Perry's Energy Department Closes Office Working on Clean Energy, Climate Change Abroad
Global leadership by the United States continues to evaporate at an accelerating pace.
The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology... The 11 staff members of the Office of International Climate and Technology were told this month that their positions were being eliminated.... The office was formed in 2010 to help the United States provide technical advice to other nations seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At a time when our world would benefit from more U.S. support on climate change, clean energy, and the environment, the exact opposite has occurred; an impossible pill to swallow.
Closing the Office of International Climate and Technology could make cooperation on clean energy with other countries much harder, said Graham Pugh, who headed the office from 2011 to 2014..... the office being eliminated specialized in applying the agency’s technical expertise to other nations’ efforts to advance clean energy projects.
This White House plans for this to be only the beginning.
Other changes to the Energy Department being contemplated by the Trump administration, like sweeping reductions in spending on research into renewable energy, nuclear power and carbon capture, will still require approval by Congress. Even some Republican lawmakers have expressed opposition to those proposed cuts.