According to Politico, The Energy Department’s international climate office has banned the use of the phrases “climate change” and “Paris Agreement” and “emissions reduction” in any written communications or during briefings.
Employees of DOE’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy learned of the ban at a meeting Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order at EPA headquarters to reverse most of former President Barack Obama's climate regulatory initiatives. Officials at the State Department and in other DOE offices said they had not been given a banned words list, but they had started avoiding climate-related terms in their memos and briefings given the new administration's direction on climate change.
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A DOE spokeswoman denied there had been a new directive. "No words or phrases have been banned for this office or anyone in the department,” said DOE spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler.
Another DOE source in a different office said that although there had been no formal instructions about climate-related language in their office there was a general sense that it's better to avoid certain hot-button terms in favor of words like "jobs" and "infrastructure."
Just. Wow. Donald Trump and the Republican Party are taking Florida’s environmental policy and applying it to the entire country. If you don’t say the words they will disappear. I’m guessing the phrases “treason” and “conflict of interest” will be banned too.