Scott Waldman
White House and climate policy reporter at POLITICO's E&E News.
swaldman@politico.com
Signal: @waldman.04
- Florida's DOGE team is now using the misleading DOE climate report to attack government spending on infrastructure, EVs, mass transit and more in one of the most climate-vulnerable states. www.eenews.net/articles/flo.... From me and @adamaton.bsky.social
- Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
- "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.
- 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.
- I love it when a plan comes together
