Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires

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Wright is the CEO of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based oil and gas company.

He has a background in oil and gas, as well as geothermal, nuclear, and solar energy.
He has a long history developing technologies for fracking, a type of oil and gas extraction.
Some of his past online posts about climate change have contradicted the scientific consensus, including a video where he said, inaccurately, that global warming did not make more intense hurricanes, droughts and floods.