US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has been front and center in global headlines this week as major energy and climate events unfolded across continents. According to the Associated Press and Evrim Agaci, Secretary Wright delivered a strong rebuke of the United Nations COP30 climate summit, calling it essentially a hoax and criticizing international efforts to combat climate change. Speaking in Athens at a US business delegation conference rather than attending the summit in Brazil, Wright insisted the global climate movement has lost sight of human advancement and economic growth, instead focusing on what he termed fear-driven environmentalism.

This stance highlights a marked change in US energy policy under President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump himself withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and now actively blocks support for renewable energy in favor of what he calls energy dominance. According to AOL, this policy shift has included clawing back more than thirteen billion dollars in grants that supported clean energy initiatives and moving to revive domestic coal and natural gas production.

One of Wright’s priorities at the Athens forum was to push US liquefied natural gas exports to Eastern Europe and Ukraine while openly criticizing European carbon reduction laws, arguing that these threaten economic growth and technological leadership. Meanwhile, at the COP30 summit in Brazil, world leaders and climate scientists continue to raise the alarm, with the World Meteorological Organization warning that 2025 is set to be among the warmest years ever recorded and that urgent, coordinated action is necessary.

Secretary Wright has also made headlines in domestic policy. A recent directive sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urges the agency to accelerate the process for connecting large electricity users such as artificial intelligence data centers to the US power grid. According to Bracewell Law, this move could dramatically expand federal oversight of energy infrastructure, prompting debates about state versus federal authority and raising questions about cost and reliability for consumers.

On nuclear policy, Wright told Fox News and the Straits Times that recent nuclear weapons tests ordered by President Trump do not involve actual nuclear explosions. Instead, they are system tests to verify the reliability of new weapons designs, with Wright emphasizing that simulation technology now provides highly accurate results for these scenarios.

Environmental advocates and many world leaders have expressed frustration and concern at this turn in US energy leadership, with calls for the United States to do more in the global fight against climate change remaining unanswered so far.

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