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Trump lays out Coloradan Chris Wright’s focus, to unleash ‘liquid gold’ at home and abroad

President Donald Trump vowed to bring down domestic prices and position America as an energy exporter by unleashing the “liquid gold” flowing beneath U.S. soil, stripping away what he deemed to be excessive regulations and adopting a slew of policies favorable to oil and gas drilling. 

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Senator praises Trump’s energy ‘dream team’ nominees, Wright and Burgum

Freshman Sen. Jim Justice began his first week on the job warning that America faces a “crisis” unless the country addresses its energy policies – and fast. But he expressed confidence in two of the nominees President-elect Trump has selected to tackle the issue.

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Chris Wright, the Coloradan who could be on cabinet, pledges to ‘unleash American energy’

Chris Wright, a Denver businessman and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Energy secretary, told U.S. senators Wednesday that, if confirmed, he would use the position to “unleash American energy at home and abroad.”

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Chris Wright, the Coloradan who could head up the Energy Department, wants to cut regulations, return to dominance

Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of the Department of Energy, laid out his key priorities, including restoring “energy dominance,” increasing technological innovation and cutting regulatory red tape, during a nearly three-hour confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

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Sloan: Could Doug Burgum and Chris Wright lead an American energy revival?

There is much consternation in different corners about President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks; indeed, some of it is not entirely unwarranted. Much of it, on the other hand, is on the order of polemical hysteria, an outcropping of the left’s general caterwauling about how America under a second Trump presidency will take on the appearance of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

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Trump’s energy ‘dream team’: Chris Wright and Doug Burgum’s potential to-do list

President-elect Trump has tapped two energy czars to oversee the expansion of American energy in his second term, and the industry has already handed the incoming administration and Congress a wish list of what they would like to see as the top priorities of leadership’s agenda.

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Trump’s pick for energy secretary, Colorado’s Chris Wright, says the real crisis is ‘energy poverty’

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Energy, Colorado’s Chris Wright, views the world divided between the haves and have-nots — with a specific eye toward access to energy, arguing that, instead of a “climate” agenda, America should focus on ensuring a wide array of cheap, abundant and sustainable energy sources that include geothermal, nuclear, oil and gas. 

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