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Trump Picks Climate-Denying Oil & Gas Magnate as Energy Sec. He Once Drank Fracking Fluid on Live TV
As we broadcast all week from the COP29 talks in Azerbaijan, we look at what Donald Trump's reelection as U.S. president means for the climate. Clean energy and environmental advocates are raising alarm over Trump's picks for key roles in his administration, including fracking magnate Chris Wright to serve as energy secretary and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department, where he could greatly expand drilling on federal lands. Burgum, a major ally of the fossil fuel industry, was also tapped to head a newly created National Energy Council aimed at increasing oil and gas production. For more on the White House transition, we speak with Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Natural Resources Defense Council Action. He calls Trump's picks "deeply troubling" but says there is still room for optimism. "The clean energy transition in the United States is unstoppable. It's going to hit some speed bumps now, but it will move forward," says Bapna.
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That the main concern of the Department of Energy is not production or consumption of energy in the US, but maintaining the nuclear weapon stockpiles.
