Keep pulling the thread on Chris Wright.
The Trump administration's economic agenda includes increasing U.S. energy production with the stated goals of lowering costs for consumers, reshoring manufacturing, and raising wages.
The Trump administration ended the Biden administration's pause on LNG permitting.
Over 18 billion cubic feet (BCF) per day of new LNG export permits have been approved in the United States since the permitting pause was ended.
The 18 BCF per day of LNG export capacity permitted in the last 13 months is sufficient to make the United States the world's largest exporter of natural gas.
The Department of Energy, under Secretary Chris Wright, used its authority to prevent the premature retirement of 17 gigawatts of coal power plants.
Secretary Chris Wright asserts that keeping 17 GW of coal power plants online prevented significant blackouts and hundreds of deaths during Winter Storm FIRM.
The largest-ever weekly withdrawal of natural gas from U.S. storage, 360 BCF, occurred during the last week of January of this year due to Winter Storm FIRM.
The Trump administration is on track to have three next-generation nuclear reactors operational by July 4th of the current year.
The Trump administration is implementing a competitive, state-level opt-in process for siting permanent nuclear waste disposal facilities, which it refers to as "nuclear innovation campuses."
The International Energy Agency (IEA) members agreed to a coordinated release of 400 million barrels of petroleum from strategic stockpiles to offset oil flow disruptions from the Strait of Hormuz.
Secretary Chris Wright states that the government of Iran launched, weaponized, and planned the October 7th attack on Israel from Gaza.
The United States began releasing oil from its strategic petroleum reserves on the Friday prior to the speech.