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Chris Wright Reveals Biden Administration Buried Report Showing LNG Benefits to Push Climate Agenda
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright exposes how the Biden administration suppressed evidence that liquefied natural gas exports benefit America economically and reduce emissions. Wright discusses his mission to restore energy dominance, end subsidies for unreliable power sources, and bring scientific integrity back to climate discussions. He explains how states like California and New York chose expensive electricity through bad policy, and why market forces, not government mandates, should drive energy decisions. Wright promises to scale up electricity production, support nuclear and natural gas development, and stop the policies that tripled energy costs in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom.
Chris Wright didn't mince words when describing what he discovered upon taking office as Secretary of Energy. The Biden administration conducted a comprehensive report on liquefied natural gas exports that showed they were economically positive for the United States and would slightly lower greenhouse gas emissions. The finding contradicted their climate narrative so thoroughly that they buried the report and never spoke about it publicly. When Wright's team arrived at the Department of Energy, they found a much longer version than what was eventually released to the public.
This suppression of evidence exemplifies the previous administration's approach to energy policy. For four years, the Department of Energy operated behind the scenes as part of what Wright describes as an "all of government battle against climate change." Every dollar, every focus, every effort went toward wind, solar, batteries, and electric vehicles. The result? Hundreds of billions of dollars invested to achieve just 3% of United States energy production. Everywhere these technologies achieved meaningful penetration, electricity prices increased.
Standing Against Natural Gas While America Needed It Most
The Biden administration actively stood in the way of natural gas, America's fastest growing source of energy and fastest growing export. The infamous LNG pause demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice American economic interests and energy security for an ideological agenda. Wright emphasizes that they were against the very energy that powers our world, willing to be dishonest, and convinced that their actions would somehow stop climate change and make the world safer—claims he says are completely contrary to facts and data.
The Transition from Business to Government
Wright comes from an accomplished business career as a lifelong entrepreneur. He admits he always said he would never work in government, viewing it as slow-moving and bureaucratic. He preferred the hard-driving, risk-taking environment of entrepreneurship and didn't even want to work for a large company. But serving under President Trump changed his expectations entirely.
"In this government with President Trump, it is fast-moving. It is business-like," Wright explains. When he and his team identify a policy that needs fixing and want to lean in and take a risk, the president says absolutely and tells them to find more things to fix. This stands in stark contrast to the slow-moving bureaucratic nightmare he feared. While his powers and ability to do things differ significantly from the business world, he expresses high confidence that massive changes will happen over four years.
Wright takes the work personally because it matters deeply. "We have needlessly victimized Americans with expensive energy and pushed industries overseas. That's just wrong," he says. Under Trump's leadership, he's determined to stop it.
Energy as the Lifeblood of Civilization
Wright frames energy not as a political issue but as the literal life force of civilization. Without abundant, affordable energy, you cannot have economic growth. You cannot have artificial intelligence development. You cannot have people flying affordably from New York to Los Angeles. Energy is fundamental to everything a modern society does, yet the previous administration treated it as something to be restricted and controlled rather than developed and expanded.
Attacking the Climate Science Establishment
The Department of Energy under Wright has taken on the entire climate science establishment with what critics call a contentious report. The New York Times characterized it as the agency asking "five climate skeptics" to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Wright rejects this framing entirely.
"Science does not have consensus," Wright emphasizes. "Science says nothing. Scientists say things." Science itself is silent—it's a methodology, a process of exploration, measurement, analysis, and inquiry. Scientists interpret data and draw conclusions that must be tested, challenged, and cross-referenced. The distinction matters enormously because the left treats "the science" as a top-down authority that tells people what to do, the exact opposite of how scientific inquiry actually works.
Wright contrasts this with real science, which is a process of challenge, engagement, and debate. Scientists wrestle with data, and when data doesn't agree with a model, the model is wrong—not the data. The COVID experience demonstrated this clearly, as did the climate movement, which Wright describes as "the climate movement in fast-forward."
Defending Distinguished Scientists Against Character Attacks
The five scientists who contributed to the Department of Energy's climate report are hardly fringe figures. Wright points out that one served as Under Secretary for Science in the Obama administration and as provost at Caltech with a PhD from MIT. All are highly accomplished scientists tired of censorship in their field. They're skeptical not of science itself but of the censorship of real scientific process and engagement.
When Wright appeared on CNN to discuss the climate report, he received zero questions about climate change itself. The interviewers wanted to impugn the writers, question how the report referenced people, and find minor issues to attack. They refused to engage with the actual data or scientific arguments. "What we want to talk about is the data," Wright insists. "Let's talk about climate science like it's a real phenomenon."
He acknowledges climate change as a real, slow-moving phenomenon but emphasizes it's not even remotely close to the world's biggest problem. The left uses it to justify big government and top-down control of everything. Wright spent 20 years studying climate science as physical data, and he notes that people passionate about climate alarmism never want to debate him because they don't actually know the science. "But we're going to have that debate whether they want it or not," he promises.
Ending Children's Nightmares and Restoring Scientific Integrity
Wright sees his mission extending beyond policy to ending the psychological damage inflicted on young people who've been taught to fear climate catastrophe. Over four years, he aims to end children's nightmares and stop people from being pushed around and bullied by activists who don't understand the actual science. He's bringing back real scientific methodology to government, joining Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Health and Human Services in restoring integrity to how federal agencies approach science.
The Plan for Electricity Dominance
When asked about scaling up America's electricity output drastically, Wright points to cautionary tales. The United Kingdom and Germany went down the policy pathway the Biden administration wanted to follow. They tripled their electricity prices and pushed all their industry out of their countries. Yet the Biden administration wanted to replicate that disaster.
Wright's approach centers on bringing common sense back to energy policy. Utilities and data center developers will be allowed to build what makes economic sense for them without mandates or subsidies to build unreliable electricity generating systems. If companies want to build solar, they're free to do so, but the government won't pay them to put unreliable electricity on the grid.
Most wind, solar, and new transmission lines built in recent years happened because of heavy subsidies. The government paid people to add unreliable electricity to the grid, knowing it would lead to more expensive electricity and less stable grids. Wright is reversing that direction.
Market Forces Over Political Mandates
New generation capacity will be built based on what makes economic sense. In the short term, this will mostly mean natural gas. Nuclear power will also come online. But market forces will make these decisions, not government bureaucrats or environmental activists.
Wright makes a critical point about electricity prices: every state in America with expensive electricity chose it through their politicians. "It isn't bad luck. It isn't anything. It was chosen by their politicians," he explains. California decided to have expensive electricity, push their industry out, and impoverish their people. New England, New York, and now New Jersey made the same bad choices.
These are policy decisions with real consequences for American families and businesses. Wright's Department of Energy is working to ensure that affordable, reliable electricity becomes the norm rather than the exception, powered by market forces and technological innovation rather than political ideology and subsidies for unreliable sources.
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