“This election was about ‘draining the swamp’ and changing the way Washington works. Neonics and other US EPA actions would be a good place to begin.”

Canadian regulators have followed the EU’s (flawed) lead. For years, environmentalists and beekeepers in Ontario and Quebec Provinces have battled farmers and beekeepers in the rest of Canada over whether neonics pose a threat to bees. It’s the tail wagging the dog, since 80 percent of beekeeping is in these other provinces.

Canadian law requires that every incidence of beehive losses be described in an exhaustive examination and reported to HealthCanada. Reports filed from the beginning of record-keeping through 2012 show that the majority of bee-kill incidents reported in Canada occurred in 2012, and most came from one province (Ontario), where many beekeepers are hobbyists.…

(* Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, 2017 – WIIN Act)

“There is no drought….If I win, believe me, we’re going to start opening up the water so that your farmers can survive” – Candidate Donald J. Trump, May 27, 2016, Fresno, California

“If we don’t move now, we run the real risk of legislation that opens up the Endangered Species Act in the future, when Congress will again be under Republican control, this time backed by a Trump administration.”  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), “Latest Compromise Drought Relief Bill Receives Praise, Opposition”, Capital Press, December 7, 2016.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump is poised to score a win-WIIN deal in the California water war as Congress has passed the bi-partisan Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act – Senate Bill 612). …

“[Climate change is] a very complex subject. I’m not sure anybody is ever going to really know…. they say they have science on one side but then they also have those horrible emails that were sent between the [Climategate] scientists…. Terrible. Where they got caught, you know, so you see that and you say, what’s this all about. I absolutely have an open mind.”

– President-elect Donald Trump, “Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript,” November 23, 2016. Quoted in Joe Romm, “Trump Fools the New York Times on Climate Change, ThinkProgress, November 23, 2016.

It has been seven years this month since the intellectual scandal erupted called Climategate. With President-elect Trump’s recent reference to the scandal, it is timely to recall some of the more salient quotations.…

“Science is science and facts are facts. My administration will ensure that there will be total transparency and accountability without political bias. The American people deserve this and I will make sure this is the culture of my administration.”

– Donald Trump, quoted in  “What Do the Presidential Candidates Know about Science?” Scientific American, September 13, 2016.

In the “Presidential Science Debate 2016,” a science literacy project with media partner Scientific American, candidate Donald Trump gave answers that continue to elucidate his views on energy and the environment. (Answers were also provided by Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson did not choose to participate in the questionnaire.)

Trump’s energy/climate policy views have been previously chronicled here:

• Trump on Energy: Promising Free Market Directions (March 31, 2016)
• Trump’s Energy Speech: Strong Free Market Directions (June 1, 2016);
• Trump on Climate in 2009 (crony aside now corrected) (June 13, 2016)
• GOP Energy Platform: Free Market Directions (July 20, 2016)

Trump’s energy views, below, are not quite free-market or libertarian with a seeming role for nuclear power despite its non-competitiveness and a possible continuation of renewable-energy subsidies.…