{"id":21464,"date":"2025-02-03T22:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T23:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21464"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:31:00","slug":"chris-wright-is-confirmed-to-be-secretary-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21464","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wright Is Confirmed to Be Secretary of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate confirmed Chris Wright to lead the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, putting the former oil executive in a key position to help shape President Trump\u2019s energy policies.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wright, the founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking firm, was confirmed by a vote of 59 to 38, with support from all Republicans present and a smaller number of Democrats. He would be the 17th secretary of energy, a position that was created in 1977.<\/p>\n

At his confirmation hearing<\/a>, Mr. Wright said his top priority was to \u201cunleash\u201d domestic energy production, including liquefied natural gas and nuclear power. He also told Democrats that he believed climate change was a \u201cglobal challenge that we need to solve\u201d and that he would support the development of renewable energy like wind and solar power.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Mr. Wright said he would \u201cwork tirelessly\u201d to support Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201cbold\u201d energy agenda. The president has frequently dismissed climate change as a hoax, disparaged wind and solar power and said he wants to expand the use of oil, gas and coal, the burning of which is driving climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Energy Department plays a central role in developing new energy technologies. The agency oversees a network of 17 national laboratories<\/a> that conduct cutting-edge research as well as a powerful loan office<\/a> that has backed dozens of low-carbon energy projects, including battery factories in Ohio and Tennessee and two giant nuclear reactors in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wright would also oversee approvals of liquefied gas export terminals, which the Biden administration tried to slow, angering industry groups. Mr. Trump has already ordered the Energy Department to restart reviews of proposed export facilities.<\/p>\n

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The Senate confirmed Chris Wright to lead the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, putting the former oil executive in a key position to help shape President Trump\u2019s energy policies.Mr. Wright, the founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking firm, was confirmed by a vote of 59 to 38, with support from all Republicans present and a smaller number of Democrats. He would be the 17th secretary of energy, a position that was created in 1977.At his confirmation hearing, Mr. Wright said his top priority was to \u201cunleash\u201d domestic energy production, including liquefied natural gas and nuclear power. He also told Democrats that he believed climate change was a \u201cglobal challenge that we need to solve\u201d and that he would support the development of renewable energy like wind and solar power.At the same time, Mr. Wright said he would \u201cwork tirelessly\u201d to support Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201cbold\u201d energy agenda. The president has frequently dismissed climate change as a hoax, disparaged wind and solar power and said he wants to expand the use of oil, gas and coal, the burning of which is driving climate change.The Energy Department plays a central role in developing new energy technologies. The agency oversees a network of 17 national laboratories that conduct cutting-edge research as well as a powerful loan office that has backed dozens of low-carbon energy projects, including battery factories in Ohio and Tennessee and two giant nuclear reactors in Georgia.Mr. Wright would also oversee approvals of liquefied gas export terminals, which the Biden administration tried to slow, angering industry groups. Mr. Trump has already ordered the Energy Department to restart reviews of proposed export facilities.We 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":21466,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21464","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\/21464","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=21464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21467,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21464\/revisions\/21467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}