{"id":94414,"date":"2025-09-30T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94414\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:40:12","slug":"list-of-words-to-avoid-us-energy-department-bans-use-of-climate-change-green-in-official-communications-cites-administrative-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94414\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018List of words to avoid\u2019: US energy department bans use of \u2018climate change\u2019, \u2018green\u2019 in official communications; cites administrative priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-ap.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018List of words to avoid\u2019: US energy department bans use of \u2018climate change\u2019, \u2018green\u2019 in official communications; cites administrative priorities\" title=\"Image: AP \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> The US energy department (EERE) has added \u201cclimate change,\u201d \u201cgreen,\u201d and \u201cdecarbonization\u201d to its expanding \u201clist of words to avoid\u201d within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The listed terms are central to EERE\u2019s mission, which serves as the government\u2019s largest investor in technologies aimed at reducing heat-trapping emissions that contribute to climate change and curbing hazardous pollution from fossil fuels.\u201cPlease ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid \u2014 and continue to be conscientious about avoiding any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the Administration\u2019s perspectives and priorities,\u201d the directive, issued by acting director of external affairs Rachel Overbey, said, as cited by Politico.In addition to \u201cclimate change\u201d and \u201cgreen,\u201d EERE has prohibited officials from using the term \u201cemissions,\u201d citing concerns that it implies a negative connotation. Other banned terms include \u201cenergy transition,\u201d \u201csustainability\u201d or \u201csustainable,\u201d \u201c\u2018clean\u2019 or \u2018dirty\u2019 energy,\u201d \u201ccarbon\/CO2 footprint,\u201d and \u201ctax breaks,\u201d \u201ctax credits,\u201d or \u201csubsidies.\u201dThe guidelines reportedly apply to both internal and public communications, including documents such as federal funding requests for information, reports, and briefings.The new rules were introduced just days after US President Donald Trump criticized world leaders at the UN General Assembly for taking action on rising emissions.Trump dismissed global warming and climate change as a \u201choax\u201d aimed at weakening the West economically. \u201cCarbon footprint\u2026is a con job. If you don\u2019t get away from the green scam your country is going to be ruined,\u201d he told European nations, while praising Germany for shifting away from renewable energy and returning to fossil fuels, including what he called \u201cbig beautiful coal.\u201dEnergy secretary Chris Wright has also challenged climate science, promoting a report he commissioned that minimized the impact of rising emissions on worsening extreme weather events.Last week, Wright canceled $13 billion in funding for renewable energy projects and criticized wind and solar incentives, which are set to expire under the Republican legislation after more than three decades in place.\u201cIf you can\u2019t rock on your own after 33 years, maybe that\u2019s not a business that\u2019s going places,\u201d Wright said at a press conference, as reported by Politico. Climate change is driven by increasing greenhouse gas emissions, largely resulting from the burning of oil, coal, and natural gas for energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US energy department (EERE) has added \u201cclimate change,\u201d \u201cgreen,\u201d and \u201cdecarbonization\u201d to its expanding \u201clist of words&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[442,20443,18,15406,440,61032,6621,10952,19,17,61031,133,1373,50928,61030],"class_list":{"0":"post-94414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-decarbonization","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-energy-transition","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-european-nations","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-office-of-energy-efficiency-and-renewable-energy","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-sustainability","21":"tag-un-general-assembly","22":"tag-us-energy-department"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}