Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week dismissed climate policy as a tool of government control, and he described as “sinister” efforts to zero out planet-warming emissions by midcentury.
Wright delivered the biting criticism Monday while speaking via video to a London conference of conservative leaders.
The crowd in attendance at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event included right-wing politicians, oil company representatives and conservative think tank leaders. The other speakers included House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and other opponents of climate policy.
Wright told the group that any country that pursues the goal of eliminating carbon emissions by 2050 was “impoverishing citizens in pursuit of a delusion.”
