Currents - Energy Industry Insights - May 2018 #5

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In an Internal Memo, the White House Considered Whether to Simply 'Ignore' Federal Climate Research -

"The document, drafted September 18 by Michael Catanzaro, President Trump's special assistant for domestic energy and environmental policy at the time, highlights the dilemma the administration has faced over climate change since Trump took office."

Why this is important: This article reports on a memo drafted by a White House staffer who suggests an option available to the Trump administration is to simply ignore government research on climate change. That sounds like an attempt to squelch science, but that suggestion is based on an underlying belief that the scientific research done by some federal agencies has been partisan and less than objective....

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