What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

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.