Energy Dept. adds 'climate change' and 'emissions' to banned words list
Source: Politico
09/28/2025 02:47 PM EDT
The Energy Department has added climate change, green and decarbonization to its growing list of words to avoid at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an email issued Friday and obtained by POLITICO.
The words on the DOE list are at the heart of EEREs mission: It is the governments largest investor in technologies that help reduce heat-trapping emissions that cause climate change as well as the hazardous pollution from fossil fuels. It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay the realities of climate change.
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 Administrations perspectives and priorities, the directive from acting director of external affairs Rachel Overbey said.
Those instructions apply to both public-facing and internal communications and cover documents such as requests for information for federal funding opportunities, reports and briefings.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

Blues Heron
(7,628 posts)yankee87
(2,680 posts)And we thought ostriches were dumb when they stick their heads in the sand. We are no better.
taxi
(2,544 posts)In place of 'Search and destroy' substitute the words 'sweep and clear'.
Go to 47 seconds in.
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,951 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,858 posts)... Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?'
Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically he hoped, not trusting himself to speak. Syme bit off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it briefly, and went on:
'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'
https://www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html
liberalgunwilltravel
(924 posts)If Trump and his ass-kissing suckups ban words. Their idiot followers might believe their shit, but it doesnt change reality.
3Hotdogs
(14,609 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(1,576 posts)asthma, lung disease, lung cancer and death.
The Republican Administration is also considering collecting and burning all dictionaries including internet sourced. They are considered a danger to society and our children.
On the other hand, the administration is working to make gun silencers, automatic machine guns and bumper stocks completely legal.
Gimpyknee
(737 posts)Lionel Mandrake
(4,183 posts)honest, decent, good, true, science, evidence, fact
TheRickles
(2,967 posts)orangecrush
(26,848 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,858 posts)So it can be the "Office of Energy and Energy". Or "OffDoubleEnergy". Doubleplusgood.
BumRushDaShow
(160,898 posts)
muriel_volestrangler
(104,858 posts)in charge of drowning government in a bathtub.
BumRushDaShow
(160,898 posts)"Department of Government Eshittification"!
mahina
(20,080 posts)Would like their propaganda minister back.
Some pretty interesting info related to data centers, energy and the political mess of the time we are in. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watt-it-takes/id1554962073
Blurb on #1
As weve covered in other recent episodes, the growth of data centers and the massive amount of power they require is reshaping the energy landscape. Today, I want to zero in on a specific challenge at the heart of it all: the watt bit spread, a phrase coined by this months guest.
The Watt Bit Spread is the gap between the cost of electricity and the value of computingcomputing meaning, the processing power behind AI, cloud services, and digital infrastructure. Bridging that gap is one of the keys to unlocking both data center growth and new power generation.
Despite countless developers' promises of abundant powered land, very few can deliver what data centers and other energy-intensive industries actually need. Its not just certainty of power timelines but also land, utility agreements, capital, and community support all critical to reducing the constraints that make the watt bit spread so persistent. Too often, theres a disconnect between real estate and utilities. Some companies know how to acquire land. Others know how to work with utilities. But rarely both. And even when those pieces come together, projects can still be stalled without community support, labor, or equipment.
Thats where Brian Janous, Co-Founder and CCO of Cloverleaf Infrastructure, comes inworking to bridge the watt bit spread by aligning land, power, and communities to meet the surging demand for computing. Put simply, Cloverleaf buys land in dollars per acre and sells it in dollars per megawatt.
And on #2
The U.S. power sector serves more than 160 million electricity customersacross homes, businesses, and factories in all 50 states. But the grid that supplies that electricity wasnt designed for the world we live in now, let alone the one thats coming.
Electrification is accelerating. Data centersdriven by the explosive growth of AIare demanding more power than ever, often in places where the grid is already strained. And while decarbonization remains technically optionalfor those serious about resilience, sustainability, and long term viability, its a necessity. These three forceselectrification, digitization, and decarbonizationare colliding, reshaping how our energy system works and who its built for.
The challenge isnt just technical. Its structural. We are moving towards a world of abundant clean electricitybut too often, its available at the wrong time, or in the wrong place. Permitting and interconnection can add years of delays. And even when approved, major transmission projects often take decades to complete, if they manage to get built at all. And many of the rules that govern our electricity markets werent built for flexibility, speed, or innovation.
So what if we didnt wait for the system to catch up? What if we reimagined where clean power is built, who it serves, and how its delivered? What if gigawatt-scale clean energy projects were already breaking grounddesigned to power data centers, industrial loads, and the digital infrastructure reshaping our world?
Thats exactly what Sheldon Kimber, Co‑Founder and CEO of Intersect Power, is doing: imagining a better energy future, and then building itfaster than anyone thought possible.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watt-it-takes/id1554962073
Sheldom Kimer said something that Iʻve been thinking about. You wonʻt find a political solution to a societal problem.
That is debatable. Maybe not a solution but certainly multiple solutions to individual societal problems are within reach. So on that I disagree.
Otherwise, it was astonishing. Both of them were.
We will now resume pretending that Donald Trump is the real President of the United States and has control over anything. Id sure like to know who is running the show- not just Leo and Heritage, Thiel, Miller, Ellison and I believe, Putin. I mean as individuals
BumRushDaShow
(160,898 posts)that has gotten lost in the AI frenzy is bitcoin. The power needs for "mining" (generating algorithms to access the blockchain) is also factoring since they apparently are attempting to get that fake currency completely into our banking system.
mahina
(20,080 posts)Cha
(314,640 posts)