Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference

The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.

“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global.

Wright, a former fracking executive who was picked by Trump to the crucial cabinet position, also attacked the Joe Biden administration for focusing “myopically on climate change”.

  • @P1nkman
    37•20 hours ago

    I’m so happy my wife and I don’t have kids, and I feel sorry for all my friends. It was a fun ride.

    • @IphtashuFitzEnglish
      3•5 hours ago

      Same. I also feel bad for my two nephews who are both in their 20’s. One of them used to talk about raising a family & being a stay at home dad. He hasn’t talked like that in about 5 years now.

      • @P1nkman
        2•4 hours ago

        My nephew, who’s 22, is having a kid. It was planned with his girlfriend. I was shocked when I heard.