Trump announced Chris Wright, the CEO of oil and natural gas fracking services company Liberty Energy, as his pick for energy secretary.

Wright has been one of the industry's loudest voices against efforts to fight climate change and could give fossil fuels a boost, including quick action to end a year-long pause on natural gas export approvals by the Biden administration.

Chris Wright is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, and has experience with both fossil fuel and renewable energy sources.

We go through the list of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees ahead of his second term. Trump's picks this time are defined by a commonality: loyalty.

Senator Edward Markey warned that President-elect Donald Trump's potential environmental policies will create an "uproar."

Trump called Liberty Energy's Chris Wright "one of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution."

Trump picked Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, as energy secretary.

President Joe Biden met Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping for the last time as U.S. president on Saturday, with the leaders’ goal of lowering tensions amid fresh conflicts over cyber crime, trade, Taiwan and Russia. President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary […]

The U.S. continues to uphold sanctions on several countries including Iran, Venezuela, and Russia. While the Biden administration eased sanctions on Venezuelan energy at the beginning of the year, and Iran has been able to increasingly circumvent sanctions, there was no clear path to bringing the sanctions to a total stop. Now, with the election of Donald Trump as President for a second non-consec...

President-elect Trump has talked about using the military on the enemy from within, at the border and potentially even in Mexico against cartels. The rhetoric has sparked increasing worry among Democrats on Capitol Hill as Trump heads toward his second term. Republicans, however, largely downplayed the concerns during interviews this week. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.),...

Chris Wright faced significant backlash last year when he denied the globe was facing a climate emergency.

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“President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in a second Trump administration,” the AP reports.