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Trump taps fracking CEO Chris Wright for Energy secretary |
President-elect Trump announced Saturday he would nominate Chris Wright, a donor and fracking company leader, to serve as his Energy secretary. |
Wright, a Trump donor, is the CEO of Liberty Energy, a fracking and oilfield services company. Wright will require Senate confirmation to lead the Department of Energy. In addition to that role, Trump said Wright would serve on a newly formed Council of National Energy being led by his nominee for Interior secretary, Doug Burgum. That council will focus on cutting regulations and increasing investments to ramp up oil and gas production. Trump has pledged to increase drilling upon taking office, even as the U.S. set records for oil production under the Biden administration, and he has signaled support for the fracking industry. The Energy Department oversees oil and gas production and exports, as well as the nation's nuclear weapons program. Fracking, which is short for hydraulic fracturing, is an oil and gas extraction technique that kicked off the "shale revolution" greatly boosting companies' energy production potential and helping to make the U.S. the world's top producer of oil and gas. Read more from our colleague Brett Samuels at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter, we're Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk — keeping you up to speed on the policies impacting everything from oil and gas to new supply chains. |
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How policy will affect the energy and environment sectors now and in the future: |
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President Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon rainforest Sunday to view the Amazon River and the ongoing effects of climate change. |
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Chris Wright, President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Energy Department, has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather, claiming that storms are not getting more intense. |
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Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. |
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President Biden will send Congress an extensive emergency funding request in the coming days, the White House said Monday, as administration officials called on Congress to approve more money following a slew of natural disasters. |
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Branch out with a different read from The Hill: |
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President-elect Trump's plans to reshape the federal workforce would allow him to fire wide swaths of career employees and replace them with political appointees — a move that comes as he has demanded loyalty at every level of government. |
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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EU zones in on $200B to $300B target for global climate fund (Politico Europe) MTA board approves Hochul's revised congestion pricing plan (NY1)
Why hydropower is failing this nation — and could fail others (The Washington Post)
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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Multiple Republican senators are looming as potential obstacles to President-elect Trump's controversial Cabinet picks, especially his two most polarizing choices: former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read more |
| Texas Democrats are sorting through what went wrong after their shining hopes turned to ash in November — and what it means for their long-term plans to take power. Read more |
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