It appears that Donald Trump’s transition team is backing away from a previous request for a list of names of climate change employees at the Department of Energy. [AdSense-A] The Trump transition team appeared sent the controversial questionnaire to the Energy Department last week asking for the names of department staffers who had worked on several climate-change initiatives under President Obama. In a statement to the Washington Post Trump’s transition team said, “The questionnaire was not authorized or part of our standard protocol. The person who sent it has been properly counseled.” After uproar, Trump transition team walks back its...

[AdSense-A] The U.S. Office of Government Ethics has called on Donald Trump to divest himself of his business interests in order to avoid conflicts of interest while in the White House, according to a letter from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Going further the letter says that transferring ownership of his businesses to his grown children wouldn’t address the multitudes of conflicts. “Transferring operational control of a company to one’s children would not constitute the establishment of a qualified blind trust, nor would it eliminate conflicts of interest” under federal statutes governing conflicts of interest, said the letter,...