President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, Chris Wright, will play a vital role in the incoming administration’s goal of increasing oil production and lowering energy costs for people.

Liberty Energy CEO Wright is an MIT and Berkeley trained engineer. He's not a fan of solar and wind power, but has invested in next-gen nuclear and geothermal startups.

Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright, Donald Trump's choice for Energy secretary, is a strong supporter of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of the president-elect’s quest for U.

Trump's energy pick Wright believes fossil fuels are key to ending world poverty, and is bigger than climate change's distant threat.

Trump Department of Energy nominee Chris Wright is often called an unconventional thinker in the oil industry. He plans to bring that same approach to his new job.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Chris Wright, a CEO of a fracking company, as his pick for secretary of the Department of Energy. Trump called Wright “a leading technologist and entrepreneur in Energy,

President-elect Donald Trump tapped longtime fracking advocate Chris Wright to lead his administration’s Department of Energy, he announced Saturday. Wright, the chief executive of oilfield services group Liberty Energy, helped launch the American Shale Revolution of the mid-2000s that significantly increased US production of oil and natural gas.

If confirmed, Chris Wright and Gov. Doug Burgum will have the opportunity to prioritize innovation and deregulation to the benefit of taxpayers and the environment.