Pathetic: DOE Secy Heading To EU To Pimp Team Energy Freedom; "Toxic Cocktail"; "Disinformation"; "Simplistic"
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is in Europe this week to lobby for oil and gas, and some European policy experts say his pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on disinformation, including a misleading climate report his department published this summer. On September 9 and 10, Wright is visiting the GasTech conference in Milan, Italy, to participate in a fireside chat and press conference and then traveling on to European Union headquarters in Brussels and to Vienna for the annual conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In a press release, the U.S. Department of Energy touted the trip as a chance “to strengthen long-lasting partnerships and encourage countries to join the United States as President Trump builds an energy secure and prosperous future.” A report, released by the department in July, downplayed the deadly impacts of global warming and ignored the overwhelming scientific consensus on the need to cut fossil fuel emissions. Dozens of climate scientists concluded that the report was “fundamentally incorrect.”
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The U.S. fossil fuel policy also resonates with the global fossil fuel industry, said Reinhard Steuerer, a political scientist and climate policy expert at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. “Of course, Big Oil around the world is happy about climate denial ruling in the U.S., and about rolling back climate ambitions across Europe,” he said. That’s a rational business point of view because they are safeguarding their profits in the short term, he added.
“The problem is when not only powerful politicians, but also majorities fall for their lies, simply because it is the most convenient way out of our climate dilemma here and now,” he said. After decades studying the climate crisis, Steurer is convinced that the “toxic cocktail of profits and convenience through denial threatens our civilization as we know it, most likely sooner than we are able to imagine.” Esther Bollendorff, the senior gas policy coordinator with Climate Action Network Europe, a large umbrella group of advocacy groups and other NGOs, said Wright’s European tour is “nothing more than a lobbying crusade” to try and lock Europe into fracked liquid fossil gas, a methane-intensive fuel widely banned across Europe.
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09092025/energy-secretary-chris-wright-fossil-fuels-europe/
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With Trump promoting fossil fuels, I do not see much progress being made in our climate crisis at all!! 
“The problem is when not only powerful politicians, but also majorities fall for their lies, simply because it is the most convenient way out of our climate dilemma here and now,” he said. After decades studying the climate crisis, Steurer is convinced that the “toxic cocktail of profits and convenience through denial threatens our civilization as we know it, most likely sooner than we are able to imagine.”