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The administration has many seams, and several big ones are coming apart. Politico has an account of how fracking executive Chris Wright may be ill-suited to being Secretary of Energy.

The friction, these people said, includes complaints that Wright was too slow to loop in the White House on his plans to kill tens of billions of dollars in Biden-era clean energy grants—and too willing to defend the interests of industries that want some of that funding preserved. Decisions on revoking those grants brought him into conflict with White House staff, POLITICO reported last week.

None of the people said Wright, a former Colorado fracking executive and outspoken advocate for Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies

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