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To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a \u201cside effect of building the modern world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Before a packed crowd of oil and gas executives on Monday, Chris Wright, the new U.S. energy secretary, delivered a scathing critique of the Biden administration\u2019s energy policies and efforts to fight climate change and promised a \u201c180 degree pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Wright, a former fracking executive, has emerged as the most forceful promoter of President Trump\u2019s plans to expand American oil and gas production<\/a> and dismantle virtually every federal policy<\/a> aimed at curbing global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to play a role in reversing what I believe has been a very poor direction in energy policy,\u201d Mr. Wright said as he kicked off the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, the nation\u2019s biggest annual gathering of the energy industry. \u201cThe previous administration\u2019s policy was focused myopically on climate change, with people as simply collateral damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Wright\u2019s speech was greeted with enthusiastic applause.<\/p>\n

It was quite different from a year ago, when Jennifer Granholm, the energy secretary during the Biden administration, told<\/a> the same gathering that the transition to lower-carbon forms of energy like wind, solar and batteries was unstoppable. \u201cEven as we are the largest producer of oil and gas in the world,\u201d Ms. Granholm said, \u201cthe expansion of America\u2019s energy dominance to clean energy is striking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Wright, however, was dismissive of renewable power, which he said played only a small role in the world\u2019s energy mix. Natural gas currently supplies 25 percent of raw energy globally, before it is converted into electricity or some other use. Wind and solar only supply about 3 percent, he said. He noted that gas also had a variety of other uses \u2014 it could be burned in furnaces to heat homes or used to make fertilizer or other chemicals \u2014 that were hard to replicate with other energy sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond the obvious scale and cost problems, there is simply no physical way wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas,\u201d Mr. Wright said.<\/p>\n

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To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a \u201cside effect of building the modern world.\u201dBefore a packed crowd of oil and gas executives on Monday, Chris Wright, the new U.S. energy secretary, delivered a scathing critique of the Biden administration\u2019s energy policies and efforts to fight climate change and promised a \u201c180 degree pivot.\u201dMr. Wright, a former fracking executive, has emerged as the most forceful promoter of President Trump\u2019s plans to expand American oil and gas production and dismantle virtually every federal policy aimed at curbing global warming.\u201cI wanted to play a role in reversing what I believe has been a very poor direction in energy policy,\u201d Mr. Wright said as he kicked off the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, the nation\u2019s biggest annual gathering of the energy industry. \u201cThe previous administration\u2019s policy was focused myopically on climate change, with people as simply collateral damage.\u201dMr. Wright\u2019s speech was greeted with enthusiastic applause.It was quite different from a year ago, when Jennifer Granholm, the energy secretary during the Biden administration, told the same gathering that the transition to lower-carbon forms of energy like wind, solar and batteries was unstoppable. \u201cEven as we are the largest producer of oil and gas in the world,\u201d Ms. Granholm said, \u201cthe expansion of America\u2019s energy dominance to clean energy is striking.\u201dMr. Wright, however, was dismissive of renewable power, which he said played only a small role in the world\u2019s energy mix. Natural gas currently supplies 25 percent of raw energy globally, before it is converted into electricity or some other use. Wind and solar only supply about 3 percent, he said. He noted that gas also had a variety of other uses \u2014 it could be burned in furnaces to heat homes or used to make fertilizer or other chemicals \u2014 that were hard to replicate with other energy sources.\u201cBeyond the obvious scale and cost problems, there is simply no physical way wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas,\u201d Mr. Wright said.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":23663,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23661","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\/23661","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=23661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23664,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23661\/revisions\/23664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}