Energy Department Turns Off the Lights at Overseas Climate Office

http://billmoyers.com/story/energy-department-turns-off-the-lights-on-overseas-climate-office/

The Office of International Climate and Technology worked on clean energy with other countries.
June 16, 2017

As if withdrawing from the Paris Accords wasn’t enough, the Trump administration just went one better and closed an office dedicated to international cooperation on climate change and clean energy tech. The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy might have been small — all of its 11 employees have been given pink slips — but it had an important function. According to its still extant website, the office was “the focal point for international climate change and clean energy activities.” The site goes on to say that the office “also develops and implements international climate and clean energy initiatives consistent with administration policy objectives.” Secretary of Energy Rick Perry was at a premiere event, The Clean Energy Ministerial, when the president announced the decision to drop the Paris agreement.

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