Trumpers are burying clean energy studies

I don't know whether President-to-be Biden will be able to quickly reverse a lot of what Trump has done by blanket executive orders and the like, or whether it will have to be an arduous, one-at-a-time process.

In all, the DOE has blocked reports for more than 40 clean energy studies. The department has replaced them with mere presentations, buried them in scientific journals that are not accessible to the public, or left them paralyzed within the agency, according to emails and documents obtained by InvestigateWest, as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees at the Energy Department and its national labs.

Bottling up and slow-walking studies is already harming efforts to fight climate change, according to clean-energy experts and others, because Energy Department reports drive investment decisions. Entrepreneurs worry that the agency’s practices under the current White House will ultimately hurt growth prospects for U.S.-developed technology. - InvestigateWest/Grist