ENERGY/NATIONAL SECURITY/RICK PERRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [6-1-18] formally threw his weight behind an administration push to compel power companies to keep their coal-fired and nuclear plants operating in the name of national security — an effort that has stirred criticism from environmentalists, the oil and gas industry and some free-market Republicans…The […]
Category: Rick Perry
4/3/2018
CABINET/ENERGY/RICK PERRY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Energy Secretary Rick Perry once called for abolishing the agency he now runs — though he forgot its name. His biggest policy initiative of the past year went down in resounding defeat. And he was photographed in a bear hug with a coal magnate seeking a special break from the White House. […]
3/13/2018
ENERGY/ETHICS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATIONS/RICK PERRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “President Donald Trump is considering replacing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with candidates including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, according to an administration official, after an inspector general’s report last month said Dr. Shulkin had misspent taxpayer money during an official trip to Europe last year. The official said the discussions […]
3/14/2018
ENERGY/RICK PERRY/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “President Donald Trump is considering replacing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with candidates including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, according to an administration official, after an inspector general’s report last month said Dr. Shulkin had misspent taxpayer money during an official trip to Europe last year. The official said the discussions of replacing […]
1/17/2018
ENERGY/RICK PERRY: “As a photographer for the Department of Energy, Simon Edelman regularly attended meetings with Secretary Rick Perry and snapped pictures for official purposes. Now he is out of a job and seeking whistle-blower protections after leaking photographs of Mr. Perry meeting with a major energy industry donor to President Trump. Late last year, […]
11/3/2017
ENERGY/RICK PERRY : “A proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to alter the nation’s electricity markets would provide a windfall for a small group of companies — most strikingly one owned by coal magnate Bob Murray, a prominent backer of President Donald Trump. Perry’s plan would force consumers to subsidize ailing coal-fired and nuclear power […]
11/2/2017
ENERGY/RICK PERRY: “Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested on Thursday [11-2-17] that increasing fossil fuel use to spread electricity across Africa would help prevent sexual assaults there. Perry, who traveled to South Africa last week to tout the Energy Department’s partnerships there, said he spoke with a young girl who wanted electricity so she could read […]
10/4/2017
ENERGY/ETHICS/RICK PERRY: “U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry took a chartered jet to Ohio last week, according to an airport management company, the day before fellow Cabinet member Tom Price resigned over his use of private charter flights for government business. Perry took the private plane from Hazleton Regional Airport in Pennsylvania to the Greater Portsmouth […]
8/23/2017
ENERGY/RICK PERRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [8-23-17] released a major report urging actions to protect the ‘reliability and resilience’ of the nation’s electric grid, a move that could lay the groundwork for future support of America’s ailing coal and nuclear industries. The 187-page study, commissioned by Energy Secretary Rick Perry in April, […]
8/14/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/RICK PERRY: “Environmental group the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Energy Department on Monday [8-14-17] in hopes of forcing it to reveal the groups it has consulted in conducting an eagerly awaited study on the electricity grid. It was the latest push-back on the department’s study from backers of renewable energy such as wind […]
8/2/2017
DHS/ENERGY/RICK PERRY: “President Donald Trump may tap U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to replace former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who took over as the president’s chief of staff in the White House this week, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday [8-2-17]. Bloomberg, citing three people familiar with deliberations, said other people were also being considered […]
7/25/2017
ENERGY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY/UKRAINE: “U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry optimistically discussed expanding American coal exports to Ukraine and other energy matters during a lengthy phone call this month with a Russian prankster who Perry thought was Ukraine’s prime minister. Perry actually was talking with comedians known in Russia for targeting celebrities and politicians with audacious stunts, […]
7/18/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “On his first official visit to this coal-seam state that voted overwhelmingly for Donald J. Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry praised the work of the scientists at a federal laboratory devoted to figuring out how to burn more coal with less pollution. ‘You and your predecessors have really worked […]
7/6/2017
ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “After touring one of the few recently built coal-fired power plants in the U.S., Energy Secretary Rick Perry says they’re important for the country’s future. Perry says a stable baseload of electricity is important and this technology provides ‘the ability to deliver a secure, economical and environmentally good source of energy.’ He […]
7/6/2017
ECONOMY/ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “Speaking at a coal-fired power plant in Maidsville, W.Va., on Thursday [7-6-17], Energy Secretary Rick Perry made a strange argument about supply and demand, seeming to confuse the relationship between two of the essential forces in the economy. ‘Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,’ Perry said, according to Taylor Kuykendall […]
6/19/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Monday [6-19-17] denied that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause of climate change. Asked in an interview on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ whether he believed that carbon dioxide was ‘the primary control knob for the temperature of the Earth and for climate,’ Perry said that […]
6/15/2017
ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month. The 11 staff members of the Office of International Climate and Technology were told this month […]
4/26/2017
CABINET/ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday [4-25-17] he wouldn’t recommend the US pull out of the Paris climate accord — but instead would suggest the White House take steps to renegotiate the agreement. Speaking at a Bloomberg event in New York, Perry said, ‘I’m not going to tell the President of the […]
3/2/2017
CABINET/ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “The Senate on Thursday [3-2-17] confirmed Rick Perry to be President Donald Trump’s energy secretary, putting the former Texas governor in charge of government research into new energy technologies and protecting the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. Mr. Perry, who was confirmed in a 62-37 vote, once said he wanted to eliminate the […]