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Opinion Energy Dept. rejects Trump’s request to name climate-change workers, who remain worried

Columnist
December 13, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. EST
President-elect Donald Trump is interviewed Saturday by Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” in Trump Tower in New York. (Richard Drew/AP)

Global warming — “it’s a hoax.”

Donald Trump has said that more than once.

So it’s understandable that the request by the president-elect’s transition team for the names of individual Energy Department employees and contractors who worked on the issue makes them worry that the trick could be on them.