Energy Department Bans Words Related To Climate Change, And Embraces (Cough, Cough) Coal As America's Energy Future

Energy Secretary Chris Wright doesn't want you says
"climate change" but he'll be thrilled if you
talk about coal around him. 

Once and if the government shutdown ever ends, employees at the Trump U.S. Energy Department are faced with a list of words they had better not use or ELSE!   

The Trump administration figures any words that are even sort of related to climate change just can't be uttered or written down, or his world would just end.

Or something like that.  I don't know how people will get around this one, but the Trump U.S. Energy Department has a new list of banned words that employees can't use when communicating with each other or to the public. 

Those banned words that Energy Department employees can't use when talking to or writing to teach other or the public include "climate change," "green," "energy transition," "sustainability/sustainable,: "clean" or "dirty" energy, "Carbon.CO2 footprint," "decarbonization" and "tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies." 

"Please ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid - and continue to be conscientious about avoiding any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the Administration's perspectives and priorities," said Energy Department Director of External Affairs Rachel Overbey.

Kinda weird if you ask me. And unwieldy. Even if you drank the Kool-Aid and are a real Trumpian "climate change is a hoax" type of guy or gal, how do you rail against climate change if you can't even say the words?

Will even Donald Trump be reduced to referring to climate change as "that thing that Democrats think is making us sweaty." 

To be honest, he has said stranger things than that in the past. 

To be fair, I doubt anybody at the Energy Department will complete avoid using these words and terms. Sometimes it's unavoidable.  I mean, "emissions" can be used a lot of ways to describe Trump.  

Trump has certainly got himself a loyal minion in Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to help carry out the ban. Wright, along with the Orange One, insists that climate change is not a thing. 

Wright, a former CEO of the nation's second largest fracking company, says we should rejoice in the "benefits" of a warmer world. 

Wright was pretty haughty  himself when talking about allegedy haughty opponents to more coal mining and burning. He had this to say to, as JoeMyGod accurately put it, MAGA scream queen Maria Bartiromo on Fox: 

"We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It as out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, Colorado and New York City. Coal just makes the world go round and they tried to strangle it, particularly with the Biden administration. We're stopping the strangulation. Let's stop pretending it's going away," he said.  

Say what you wail about Wright, he puts his money where his mouth is. Or more accurately, our money.  The Department of Energy recently said it will spend $625 million to "expand and reinvigorate" the U.S. coal industry. Wright called it "beautiful, clean coal," as "essential to powering America's reindustrialization and winning the AI race."

Christmas is coming up in a couple months. Wright could sure use a lump or two or more of coal in his stocking comes holiday time!