Employees at the Department of Energy's Office of International Climate and Clean Energy were told by a supervisor this week not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction," or "Paris Agreement" in memos and other written communication, Politico reports. During a meeting on Tuesday, the same day President Trump reversed many of former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, senior officials told staffers such words gave Energy Secretary Rick Perry and White House advisers a "visceral reaction." Staffers in the State Department and other Energy Department offices said they have not been told to stop using specific phrases, but "people are doing a lot of reading into tea leaves," said one State Department official. A spokeswoman for the Energy Department said "no words or phrases have been banned for this office or anyone in the department."

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