Wright has been one of the industry's loudest voices against efforts to fight climate change and could give fossil fuels a boost, including quick action to end a year-long pause on natural gas export approvals by the Biden administration.

The executive has taken a defiant approach to fighting climate change by attacking policies that call for shifting away from fossil fuels.

Trump picked industry executive Chris Wright as his nominee to be Energy secretary and to join a new Council of National Energy.

Iran reportedly gave the White House its promise that it will not attempt to kill Donald Trump just weeks before the Justice Department charged a murder-for-hire man in a scheme to kill the former president.