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The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s Energy Secretary pick Chris Wright was interrupted at least five times within the first hour on Wednesday morning by raging, left-wing climate activists.A U.S. Capitol Police officer near demonstrators outside a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025.
“My whole thing is, we want more energy in the world because it is what makes people’s lives better. You have to understand that there isn’t dirty energy or clean energy — all energies are different, and they all have different trade-offs. Different people have different weights or valuations of trade-offs. Different geographies or locations have climates more favorable this energy versus that energy,” he said.
Trump explained that in addition to serving as the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Wright would also serve as a “Member of the newly formed Council of National Energy.”
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