A top Republican senator is demanding answers from the Biden administration about the White House’s decision to send a large number of administration officials to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland at taxpayers’ expense. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) sent a letter to eight agency heads including to Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, requesting details on federal costs to send Energy Department employees (DOE) to a summit that seeks to reduce global carbon emissions. “According to Time magazine, COP26 will be the ‘most expensive COP on record,'” Barrasso wrote. “In an effort to understand the full cost the taxpayers will bear for this two-week international conference, I ask that you answer the attached questions.” “DOE’s decision to attend COP 26 comes as many executive branch employees have been forced to work from home for more than a year and a half,” Barrasso stated in the letter. “If they cannot …