Mnuchin Poised to Disband Environment and Energy Office ($)

A memo sent to the Office of Environment and Energy international affairs staff announced that all environmental work would be reassigned to the international development section, which oversaw the portfolio before President George W. Bush's Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, created a separate office to raise the profile of environmental finance, reports ClimateWire. Billy Pizer, a faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, shares his take on the disbanding of the office he once headed.