President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

Wright has called climate change activists alarmist and has likened efforts by Democrats to combat global warming to Soviet-style communism.

Trump picked industry executive Chris Wright as his nominee to be Energy secretary and to join a new Council of National Energy.

President-elect Donald Trump named oil industry CEO Chris Wright to lead the Energy Department, installing a vocal critic of government efforts to fight climate change as the head of the agency at the forefront of the Biden administration’s clean energy push.

The executive has taken a defiant approach to fighting climate change by attacking policies that call for shifting away from fossil fuels.

Chris Wright is an oil and gas executive who doesn't believe in climate change. Trump wants him to lead the Department of Energy.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil-fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration.

Chris Wright’s nomination elevates a pugnacious branch of the oil-and-gas industry that mostly hasn’t pledged to build out low-carbon energy businesses, unlike giants Exxon and Chevron.

Wright is expected to fulfil Trump's campaign promise to "drill, baby, drill" and maximise US energy production.