President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has nominated Chris Wright, an executive of a fracking company who has fiercely criticized the existence of a climate crisis and the transition to renewable energy sources,

President-elect Donald Trump tapped Chris Wright, a leading fracking executive, to lead the Department of Energy and to sit on a new “National Energy Council.”

The US is already the largest oil and gas producer in the world, reaching record levels under Joe Biden. But Donald Trump and his incoming energy secretary Chris Wright threaten to make matters even worse.