Trump's Koch-Funded Appointees Continue Ruthless Attack on Clean Energy Growth

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By Union of Concerned ScientistsMay 19, 2017, 11:20 am171 ptsTrending
By Elliott Negin When The Washington Post reported earlier this month that President Trump appointed Daniel Simmons to run the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the paper called him a "conservative scholar." Conservative scholar? "Fossil fuel industry…

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