I sat down with @SecretaryWright, and his message was simple: America doesn’t need carbon-emissions reductions that come at the cost of energy abundance. We need dramatically more energy of all kinds.
The U.S. needs 100 GW of new power over the next five years, but the previous…
— Lucy Biggers (@LLBiggers) September 9, 2026
Chris Wright has one of the most consequential, and least understood, jobs in Washington. As Trump’s Secretary of Energy, he oversees the department responsible for shaping America’s energy future: directing billions of dollars in research and development, influencing which energy technologies are built and scaled, and helping set the policies that will define the country’s energy system for decades to come.
Under Wright, the Department of Energy has taken a sharp turn away from the policies of the Biden and Obama administrations. Instead of a major focus on climate change and a renewables-first agenda that sought to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, Wright has embraced what he calls “energy abundance”: an all-of-the-above strategy that prioritizes expanding access to every energy source—including fossil fuels. The bet of this administration is that long-term human prosperity depends not on using less energy, but on producing far more of it. It’s an approach that has its detractors, but one the administration has shown it’s not scared to pursue.
Lucy Biggers is a former climate activist who once believed in climate doomerism and now believes that fear-based narrative left out important parts of the story. She sat down with Secretary Wright to understand what an energy abundance mindset looks like in practice—and why he believes it offers a better path forward for America and the world.
