1. Christopher Allen Wright was born on January 15,1965 and is an American government official, engineer, and businessman serving as the 17th United States secretary of energy since 2025.
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Chris Wright was born in 1965 and grew up in Colorado.
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Chris Wright earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Chris Wright was a graduate student in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and at MIT.
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In 1992, Chris Wright founded Pinnacle Technologies, a company involved in commercial shale gas production through fracking and served as its CEO until 2006.
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Chris Wright was chairman of Stroud Energy, another company involved in the production of shale gas, before he sold the company in 2006.
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In 2019 Chris Wright drank fracking fluid to demonstrate that it was not dangerous, and Liberty Energy promoted its "greener selections" for chemical additives.
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Chris Wright claimed that the climate movement around the world was "collapsing under its own weight".
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Chris Wright said that the term "carbon pollution" is misleading.
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Chris Wright served on the board of directors for the Denver Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from January 2020 to April 2024.
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Chris Wright called the rule unlawful "climate regulation promulgated under the Commission's seal", said that companies' risks associated with extreme weather were decreasing, and that millions of lives had been saved by reducing cold-related deaths.
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Chris Wright has been on the board of directors of Oklo Inc.
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On November 15,2024, the Financial Times reported that Chris Wright was the most likely candidate for United States secretary of energy in Donald Trump's second presidency.
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Chris Wright had donated $228,390 to Trump's joint fundraising committee in 2024.