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What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

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Former fracking executive says Obama administration will end Joe Biden's ' irrational, quasi-religious' policies on climate change.

“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek , a swanky annual conference in Houston , Texas .

Wright has been called a climate skeptic for repeatedly denying global heating is a crisis.

Chris Wright's speech was not made available to the public via live stream, sparking outrage from climate advocates.

Before joining the Trump administration, he led the oil and gas company Liberty Energy for 13 years .

One representative from an oil industry podcast said the energy secretary was “brilliant”.