President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the State Department’s Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science for information on its funding of international environmental groups. The move has sparked concern the new administration will slash funding for climate change programs. Last week, widespread outrage forced Trump’s transition team to back away from a 74-part questionnaire it had circulated within the Department of Energy requesting the names of employees working on specific climate-related projects—a move many called the creation of an “enemies list.”
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