OPINION: Trump Team Revives McCarthyism in War on the Environment

...True to this “leadership” model, the Trump transition team is now circulating a 74-question survey at the federal Department of Energy. Some of the questions are informational and seem designed to figure out how the department functions. Others promote the Trump agenda of privatizing government activities and commercializing federal agencies. But some are frightening and reminiscent of earlier “Red Scares“ when people were purged from government positions because they were critical of policies or where suspected of left-wing views or connections decades in the past...