Chris Wright and Pam Bondi's Senate Confirmation Hearings
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listener supported WNYC Studios. |
| 0:07.2 | It's the Brian Laira Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. |
| 0:23.1 | Now we'll hear some key excerpts from two of yesterday's confirmation hearings for Trump nominees. |
| 0:28.1 | We've chosen the nominees for Energy Secretary and Attorney General to focus on Energy Secretary first. |
| 0:35.2 | The nominee, Chris Wright, is the CEO of the country's second largest |
| 0:39.7 | fracking company, Liberty Energy, based in Denver. His nomination has been alarming to people |
| 0:44.9 | concerned about climate change because of comments like this that he posted in 2023 on his |
| 0:51.0 | LinkedIn. There is no climate crisis, and we're not in the midst of an energy transition either. |
| 0:57.6 | No climate crisis, no energy transition. |
| 1:01.2 | A New York Times article about Chris Wright this week called him an evangelist for fossil fuels. |
| 1:06.5 | So it may have sounded like he was softening his position some when he testified yesterday and was asked about those topics. |
| 1:15.1 | I've studied and followed the data and the evolution of climate change for at least 20 years now. |
| 1:21.4 | It is a global issue. It is a real issue. |
| 1:25.2 | It's a challenging issue. |
| 1:27.1 | And the solution to climate change is to evolve our energy. It is a real issue. It's a challenging issue. |
| 1:27.5 | And the solution to climate change is to evolve our energy system. |
| 1:32.9 | I've worked on that most all of my career, again, in nuclear and solar and geothermal |
| 1:38.5 | and new battery storage technology now. |
| 1:42.1 | And do I wish we could make faster progress? Absolutely. Are there things we can do investments |
| 1:48.0 | together through the Department of Energy to accelerate development of new energy technologies that are |
| 1:55.0 | really the only pathway to address climate change? Absolutely. And we should have nothing but American leadership in this area. |
| 2:04.6 | Energy and climate is a global problem, but America should be the leader. And I think President Trump is |
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