{"id":30615,"date":"2025-01-16T02:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/trump-energy-chief-pick-says-linking-wildfires-to-climate-crisis-is-hype\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T02:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:54:20","slug":"trump-energy-chief-pick-says-linking-wildfires-to-climate-crisis-is-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/trump-energy-chief-pick-says-linking-wildfires-to-climate-crisis-is-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump energy chief pick says linking wildfires to climate crisis is \u2018hype\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats criticize Chris Wright\u2019s comments during US Senate confirmation hearing for energy secretary nominee<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing criticism for disputing the ties between climate change and more frequent or severe wildfires, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/01\/15\/wildfires-chris-wright-trump-energy\/\">the Washington Post reports<\/a>, a stance that is contrary to scientific consensus.<\/p>\n<p>During Wright\u2019s US Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democrats, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> senator Alex Padilla, challenged Wright over past comments, pointing to a LinkedIn post calling wildfire concerns \u201chype\u201d and dismissing their connection to climate policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/15\/chris-wright-energy-secretary-climate-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats criticize Chris Wright\u2019s comments during US Senate confirmation hearing for energy secretary nominee Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing criticism for disputing the ties between climate change and more frequent or severe wildfires, the Washington Post reports, a stance that is contrary to scientific consensus. During Wright\u2019s US Senate confirmation &#8230; <a title=\"Trump energy chief pick says linking wildfires to climate crisis is \u2018hype\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/trump-energy-chief-pick-says-linking-wildfires-to-climate-crisis-is-hype\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump energy chief pick says linking wildfires to climate crisis is \u2018hype\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}