The Republican administration will not be sworn in until Monday (20th January) but already the heat is rising on energy and climate policy following Chris Wright’s testimony at a Senate confirmation hearing for Energy Secretary.
While the tone was largely equable for the first hour and 11 minutes, the mood changed when Senator Alex Padilla from California began questioning the CEO of Liberty Energy.
He put Wright on the spot about social media comments relating to climate change as ‘hype’, at a time when Los Angeles struggles to come to terms with widespread destruction from the wildfires. “Tell that to the families of the more than two dozen lost,” he said.
While Wright was mindful not to repeat the word, he said he stood by his past comments – which seemed to jar with earlier comments in the hearing, that he has been following climate change for 20 years and it’s “a global, real issue”.
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