washington u.s. energy department say tuesday comply request president-elect donald trump energy department transition team name people work climate change professional society memberships lab workers energy department response could signal rocky transition president-elect energy team potential friction new leadership staffers remain place memo send energy department tuesday review reuters last week contain 74 question include request list department employees contractors attend annual global climate talk host unite nations within last five years energy department spokesman eben burnham-snyder say tuesday department comply career workforce include contractors employees labs comprise backbone energy department important work department benefit american people burnham-snyder say go respect professional scientific integrity independence employees labs across department add forthcoming publicly available information transition team provide individual name transition team add request leave many workforce unsettle andrew rosenberg official union concern scientists say energy department make right choice refuse absurd dangerous request federal agencies need best available science respond grow risk climate change reuters report late monday former texas governor rick perry expect name trump run energy department agency employ 90,000 people work nuclear weapons maintenance research labs nuclear energy advance renewable energy batteries climate science memo seek list department employees contractors attend meet social cost carbon measurement federal agencies use weigh cost benefit new energy environmental regulations also ask publications write employees department 17 national laboratories past three years trump transition officials decline comment memo feel like first draft eventual political enemies list department energy employee ask identify fear reprisal trump transition team tell reuters josh earnest white house spokesman say news brief tuesday query could attempt target civil servants include scientists lawyers experts critical success federal government ability make policy design work transcend term one president earnest say trump republican say election campaign climate change hoax perpetrate china damage u.s. manufacture say would rip last year landmark global climate deal strike paris sign president barack obama since win nov. election however trump say keep open mind paris deal also meet former vice president al gore strong advocate action climate change meet pick oklahoma attorney general scott pruitt climate change skeptic head environmental protection agency u.s. energy department balk trump request name climate change