President Trump has named the Department of Energy's top fossil fuel official as acting undersecretary, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said in an email obtained by E&E News.
Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette's visit to the National Energy Technology Laboratory showed Mr. Trump has much in common with his 2020 challenger and Pittsburgh-area Democrats in his strategy to advance western Pennsylvania's energy industry.
On a tour through Western Pennsylvania Monday, the Trump administration's top energy official questioned the mainstream scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change.
Mr. Brouillette used Consol’s experiments in turning coal into products as a backdrop to announce that $122 million in funding will be made available for private-public partnerships involved in such work.
