Exhibit A: Trump’s selection of Chris Wright, the CEO of a Denver fracking services company called Liberty Energy, for the position of energy secretary. Wright has no government experience and certainly no experience related to nuclear weapons whose oversight is a critical part of DOE’s role.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration. CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy,

The executive has taken a defiant approach to fighting climate change by attacking policies that call for shifting away from fossil fuels.

Energy policy influencer and founder of wildcatter Continental Resources Harold Hamm told Hart Energy that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is also on his short list.

CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, Wright is a vocal advocate of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of Trump’s quest to achieve U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market.

President-elect Donald Trump named oil industry CEO Chris Wright to lead the Energy Department, installing a vocal critic of government efforts to fight climate change as the head of the agency at the forefront of the Biden administration’s clean energy push.

President-elect Donald Trump made his selection for energy secretary even as a key ally, billionaire Elon Musk, called for more direct public input into the decision-making process for another top pos

Trump picked industry executive Chris Wright as his nominee to be Energy secretary and to join a new Council of National Energy.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as Energy secretary in a second Trump administration

Wright is expected to fulfil Trump's campaign promise to "drill, baby, drill" and maximise US energy production.