Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday blasted the Biden administration's climate policies and vowed to support natural gas production. "The Trump administration will end the Biden administration's irrational, almost religious fanatic policies on climate change that have cost our citizens endless sacrifices," Wright said at the CERA Week by S&P Global energy conference. The energy secretary dismissed the previous administration's focus on climate issues as "short-sighted."
43% of the electricity in the United States is produced by natural gas. "As a practical matter, wind, solar and batteries simply cannot replace natural gas in its many uses," Wright said.
The energy secretary dismissed accusations that he is a climate change denier. Wright has previously said there is no climate crisis and carbon dioxide emissions are not pollutants.
"The Trump administration will treat climate change appropriately - as a global natural phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world," Wright said.