It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we'll hear some key excerpts from two of yesterday's confirmation hearings for Trump nominees.

We've chosen the nominees for Energy

Secretary and Attorney General to focus on Energy Secretary first. The nominee, Chris Wright,

is the CEO of the country's second largest fracking company, Liberty Energy, based in Denver.

His nomination has been alarming to people concerned about climate change because of comments like this that he posted in Denver. His nomination has been alarming to people concerned about climate change because of

comments like this that he posted in 2023 on his LinkedIn. There is no climate crisis,

and we're not in the midst of an energy transition either. No climate crisis, no energy transition.

A New York Times article about Chris Wright this week called him

an evangelist for fossil fuels. So it may have sounded like he was softening his position some

when he testified yesterday and was asked about those topics. I've studied and followed the data

and the evolution of climate change for at least 20 years now.

It is a global issue. It is a real issue. It's a challenging issue.

And the solution to climate change is to evolve our energy system.

I've worked on that most all of my career. Again, in nuclear and solar and geothermal and new battery storage technology now.

And do I wish we could make faster progress? Absolutely. Are there things we can do investments together through the Department of Energy to accelerate development of new energy technologies

that are really the only pathway to address climate change?

Absolutely.

And we should have nothing but American leadership in this area.

Energy and climate is a global problem, but America should be the leader.

And I think President Trump is

firmly aligned with that position as well. So there he does seem to accept that climate change is real

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