The climate report was assembled by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and reflects years of his own misleading climate change statements. He touted it when the Trump administration proposed the endangerment rollback, but was notably absent from the White House event where his report was unmentioned.

“They would have been obliterated in court,” @andrewdessler.com told me. "This is the gold standard of climate skepticism and if this is the best they can do, then they’ve proven how robust climate science actually is."

Report author Steve Koonin wrote in the WSJ that the "peer-reviewed report is entirely our work, free from political influence — a departure from previous assessments.” But in reality, DOE and EPA political appointees shaped the report, and even sent Clean Air Act provisions to focus their work.

"We were kept in the dark about how our report would be used," one of the report authors told me. The emails show that it false. In an email, he told his colleagues that "All I can hope is that what we write will provide sufficient ‘reasonable scientific doubt’" to attack the endangerment finding.

When he was North Dakota's governor, Burgum frequently bragged about the state's wind industry and helped it grow so large that it wind now accounts for a third of the state's power. www.eenews.net/articles/bur...

If the Trump administration wants “people who are not going to tell them [the] truth" about climate change, @katharinehayhoe.com told me, “those are the only people they have.” The plan also includes appointing a director of the US Global Change Research Program, expected to be named next month.