Doug Wright
Chris Wright is an American businessman, engineer, and government official serving as the 17th United States Secretary of Energy in the second Trump administration. Before his confirmation on February 3, 2025, he was the chairman and CEO of Liberty Energy, one of North America's largest hydraulic fracturing companies, and previously founded Pinnacle Technologies, which helped pioneer commercial shale gas production. He is known for his background in fossil fuel development and his stance that climate change is a real but manageable phenomenon rather than a crisis, while advocating for the expansion of all forms of affordable and reliable energy including nuclear, geothermal, and fossil fuels.
“Secretary Wright has been very vocal on this and kind of serves as the belly button for a lot of these issues of the administration and what he has advocated for very publicly and has said many, many times is that, yes, the climate is changing... The thing that is not true and what the data does not support is that it is a climate emergency.”
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