Senate Panel Considers DOE Secretary-Nominee in Friendly Hearing

January 16, 2025--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Oil and gas fracking executive Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to serve as energy secretary, enjoyed a friendly 2.75-hour hearing before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) Committee Wednesday. The ENR hearing was briefly interrupted four times by climate change protestors shouting "L.A. is on fire," but the questioning from the senators had no rhetorical fireworks.

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