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Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

Say goodbye to the Department of Energy as anything other than an agency for monitoring our nuclear arsenal.

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Trump selects as energy secretary Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who once vowed to abolish the agency wapo.st/2hp4X6a

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Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

Hope I'm wrong, but don't see this going well for national labs (like Oak Ridge) that devote a lot of resources to environmental science.

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Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

Another shot in the GOP's war on science.

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Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

By choosing Pruitt and Perry, Trump has announced that he will greatly scale back, if not dismantle, both the EPA and the DoE. #WarOnScience

3:34 PM · Dec 13, 2016

Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

Two major federal agencies driving scientific research, turned over to guys who would like nothing more than to destroy them. #WarOnScience

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Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

The DoE manages the 17 National Laboratories. Besides being essential to our national scientific interest, each one supports a community.

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drmag00 the unverifìed

For one, the guy is suing his new department and for the other, the guy said he wanted it eliminated. That's completely insane.

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