Why Trump's Energy Pick, Chris Wright Doesn't Deny Climate Change

Liberty Energy CEO Wright is an MIT and Berkeley trained engineer running a big fracking company. He’s also an investor in next-gen technology, including Tim Latimer’s Fervo Energy, which aims to frack hot rocks to provide geothermal energy.

To make the world a better place, you need more reliable, affordable, secure, energy,” Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy, told Forbes, 10 days before President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate him as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. And that’s true, he says, even if the world has to rely on fossil fuels to get there.

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