The Center Square (Dec. 23, 2024) – The United States is about to witness a complete energy reversal. If the selection of his new Energy secretary is any indication, President-elect Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promises to “drill, baby, drill.”

Trump’s nominee is Chris Wright, a fracking magnate and the CEO of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based oil and natural gas fracking company.

Trump has hailed Wright as “one of the pioneers who helped launch the Shale Revolution.”

If climate activists who claim to want to reduce carbon dioxide emissions understood energy, they would rejoice at the selection of Wright as Energy Secretary. Why? Natural gas fracking has been one of the most effective ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in U.S. history by overcoming coal as an energy source.

As President Trump explained in 2019, “Shale energy has reduced America’s carbon emissions by 527 million metric tons per year….[This is] a much better record than the European Union, which is always telling us how to do [reduce emissions.].”

Trump’s Energy Secretary To Lead An American Energy U-Turn