DOE Climate Plan Seeks To Shield Scientists From Hill 'Retribution'

The Department of Energy (DOE) has anonymously posted the comments it received on a draft strategy governing its Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP), in order to shield the commenters, many of whom are federal scientists, from "retribution" by powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), sources familiar with the plan say. Barton caused a furor last summer when he questioned the funding sources of several prominent climate scientists. One DOE source says, "There are Hill committees that...