President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Texas Governor Rick Perry as his Secretary of Energy. In response, NextGen Climate President Tom Steyer issued the following statement:
“President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to fill his cabinet with people who directly threaten the very purpose of the Departments they’ve been asked to lead. Governor Rick Perry not only wants to expand the use of dirty energy that pollutes our air and water, but he’s even called for the elimination of the Department of Energy–the agency responsible for safeguarding our nuclear arsenal. Trump no longer has to abolish departments. He can dismantle them from within. It’s now up to the Senate to defend our health, our economy and our democracy by defeating this nomination.”