{"id":20018,"date":"2025-01-15T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20018"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:25:05","slug":"choice-for-energy-secretary-has-been-an-evangelist-for-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20018","title":{"rendered":"Choice for Energy Secretary Has Been an Evangelist for Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Wright, the founder of a fracking services company, <\/span>argues that oil and gas are key to alleviating global poverty.<\/p>\n

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Chris Wright, Donald J. Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Energy, landed the job during his first encounter with the past and future president.<\/p>\n

The founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking services company based in Colorado, Mr. Wright was among about 20 oil and gas executives whom Mr. Trump gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in April. Mr. Wright had not met Mr. Trump before but caught his attention by making what two people in the room described as a forceful case for fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWant to be my energy secretary?\u201d Mr. Trump asked, seemingly in jest, according to those present. Days after the election, though, Mr. Trump chose Mr. Wright to lead the agency.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mr. Wright will appear before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It will be the first of three confirmation hearings this week for Mr. Trump\u2019s picks to run the agencies at the center of his plan to increase the production and use of coal, oil and gas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Wright has been an evangelist for that cause. On podcasts and in speeches, he frequently makes a moral case for fossil fuels<\/a>, arguing that the world\u2019s poorest people need oil and gas to realize the benefits of modern life.<\/p>\n

He also has distorted climate science, researchers and activists said. For example, Mr. Wright inaccurately claimed on a podcast last year that a top United Nations scientific body had found that climate change \u201cis a slow-moving, modest impact two or three generations from now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chris Wright, the founder of a fracking services company, argues that oil and gas are key to alleviating global poverty.Chris Wright, Donald J. Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Energy, landed the job during his first encounter with the past and future president.The founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking services company based in Colorado, Mr. Wright was among about 20 oil and gas executives whom Mr. Trump gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in April. Mr. Wright had not met Mr. Trump before but caught his attention by making what two people in the room described as a forceful case for fossil fuels.\u201cWant to be my energy secretary?\u201d Mr. Trump asked, seemingly in jest, according to those present. Days after the election, though, Mr. Trump chose Mr. Wright to lead the agency.On Wednesday, Mr. Wright will appear before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It will be the first of three confirmation hearings this week for Mr. Trump\u2019s picks to run the agencies at the center of his plan to increase the production and use of coal, oil and gas.Mr. Wright has been an evangelist for that cause. On podcasts and in speeches, he frequently makes a moral case for fossil fuels, arguing that the world\u2019s poorest people need oil and gas to realize the benefits of modern life.He also has distorted climate science, researchers and activists said. For example, Mr. Wright inaccurately claimed on a podcast last year that a top United Nations scientific body had found that climate change \u201cis a slow-moving, modest impact two or three generations from now.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20020,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20021,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions\/20021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}