Texas Climate and Energy Researchers Prepare for Worst-Case Scenario Under Trump

Funding for renewables and carbon capture
 and storage research may be the first to get cut.

Over the span of two days this week, the Trump administration froze EPA grants and then reversed itself, reportedly instructed the agency to scrub its website of all mention of climate change, revived construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and removed pages related to climate change from the State Department website. The new administration is also reportedly considering eliminating offices at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for renewable energy and carbon capture research.

As President Trump attempts to implement an energy policy that emphasizes fossil fuel development, energy and climate researchers are anxious about how they may be treated by the new administration, as well as potential cuts to federal research funding.

Read Naveena Sadasivam’s story in the Texas Observer - “Texas Climate and Energy Researchers Prepare for Worst-Case Scenario Under Trump.”