Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
In a move that alarmed green groups, Republican President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday tapped Chris Wright —the CEO of a fracking company who denies the climate emergency —as his energy secretary. Wright, who leads the Denver-based oil services company Liberty Energy, is a Republican donor whose nomination to head the Department of Energy is backed by powerful fossil fuel boosters including oil and gas tycoon and Trump adviser Harold Hamm.
'Energy is the lifeblood that makes everything in life possible. Energy matters. I am looking forward to getting to work.' Wright calls himself 'a lifelong environmentalist' and said last year that 'climate change is a real problem.' However, he also said in 2023 that 'there is no such thing as clean energy or dirty energy' and that 'there is no climate crisis and we're not in the midst of an energy transition either.
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