Key Takeaways President-elect Trump tapped Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright as secretary of energy for his second term.Wright also sits on the board of Oklo, a nuclear energy company backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated the CEO of oilfield services company Liberty Energy as the head of the Department of Energy (DOE). Chris Wright has denied the scientific consensus of climate change, and in 2019 drank a fracking fluid cocktail that contained bleach in an effort to claim that it is not harmful.

Shares of Liberty Energy and Oklo are rising after Trump selected Chris Wright to lead the Energy Department. Wright is the CEO of Liberty and serves as a board member at Oklo. Wright will also serve as a board member of the president-elect's Council on ...

President-elect Donald Trump named oil industry CEO Chris Wright to lead the Energy Department, installing a vocal critic of government efforts to fight climate change as the head of the agency at the forefront of the Biden administration’s clean energy push.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Chris Wright, the CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty Energy, as his pick to be the next secretary of the Department of Energy.

President-elect Donald Trump tapped Chris Wright, a leading fracking executive, to lead the Department of Energy and to sit on a new “National Energy Council.”

Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright nominated as Trump's Secretary of Energy. Liberty names Ron Gusek as new CEO depending on Wright's U.S. Senate confirmation.

Shares of Liberty Energy Inc. (OTC:LBYE) surged by more than 25% in pre-open trading on Monday following the announcement that Chris Wright, the company’s CEO, would be appointed as the next Secretary of Energy by