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Chris Wright

Chris Wright

Secretary of Energy

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Chris Wright is the 17th Secretary of Energy and a former fracking executive whose appointment put a full-on fossil-fuel evangelist in charge of U.S. energy policy. The Energy Department says he was confirmed on February 3, 2025, and Reuters has since reported on his push to pressure the International Energy Agency to back away from net-zero goals. His controversy profile is rooted in climate politics, hardline anti-net-zero rhetoric, and the administration’s broader campaign to yank energy policy toward oil, gas, and deregulation as aggressively as possible.