A little-known clean-tech agency born of bipartisanship a decade ago will now come under the hot (but sustainable) lights. Few things divide Barack Obama and Donald Trump as cleanly as the future of energy. Sitting right on top of that fault line is the Department of Energy and its advanced research projects agency. The president-elect on Wednesday nominated former Texas Governor Rick Perry to lead the DOE, whose name Perry famously couldn’t recall during a Republican debate in 2011 as he ticked off the various departments he’d try to abolish. DOE employees this week were already reeling from a 74-question interrogation that Trump’s transition team had sent them, including a demand to identify staff members or contractors who had worked on climate change. (The agency declined to provide the list, saying the move “left many in our workforce unsettled,” according to a statement. Trump’s team on Wednesday disavowed their […]

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