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    Trump's pick to head EPA *really* dislikes basically everything Obama's EPA has done. Guess this piece was timely:

  2. Trump team disavows request for DOE staff that did climate work—"The person who sent it has been properly counseled"

  3. Mesmerizing: See how climate change and human action alter the landscape.

  4. Huh, apparently the widespread belief that spinach is rich in iron was also due to a typo.

  5. Here we have the most disastrous typo in history since, idk, the one that caused NASA's Mariner I to crash:

  6. Meanwhile: Unprecedented Arctic warmth has triggered massive sea ice, snow declines in 2016

  7. The race to save federal climate databases is on, as scientists fear it could vanish under Trump via

  8. what other careers are out there i wonder. i can always grow potatoes

  9. Here's an initial look at how Rick Perry might reshape the Department of Energy:

  10. Read ’s great reporting on a Kentucky county that depends on Obamacare — and voted for Trump.

  11. Btw, that ratio hasn't changed much since 2008. Slightly higher fraction for energy today, slightly less for weapons. But remarkably stable.

  12. The Energy Department's budget is ~40% energy/science, 40% nuclear weapons, and 20% cleaning up old nuclear messes.

  13. Perry is also on the board of Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline:

  14. Er, soon-to-be DOE head. He's not there yet. Still some nuclear physicist in charge.

  15. DOE head Rick Perry's energy record. Staunch advocate of oil/gas/coal —though also a big supporter of wind in Texas:

  16. The Illinois/New York model for saving endangered nuclear reactors might well spread to other states:

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