President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for interior secretary told a Senate panel Thursday that the U.S. can leverage development of fossil fuels and other energy sources to promote world peace and lower costs and voiced concerns about the reliability of renewable power sources promoted under the Biden administration.

The former North Dakota governor told senators at his confirmation hearing that he saw limits on energy production as a national security threat.

The president-elect is going to war over turbines. At a hearing Thursday, the nominee for Interior secretary said he would pursue an “all of the above

“The American people have clearly placed their confidence in President Trump to achieve energy dominance, and by energy dominance, that’s the foundation of American prosperity,” said Burgum, a former software executive who just finished his second term as North Dakota’s governor.

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum described Trump’s aspiration to achieve U.S. “energy dominance” as a way to counter demand for fossil fuels from autocratic nations — Russia, Iran and Venezuela — that have fewer environmental safeguards.

President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior secretary, sat for a largely cordial hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on

The interior secretary nominee faced questions during his confirmation hearing about climate change, renewable energy, and plans to expand oil and gas leasing.

President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national energy emergency opens up sweeping new powers for the federal government to slash permitting requirements for energy projects, fast-track power-plant construction and loosen curbs on fossil-fuel exports.

Doug Burgum, former North Dakota governor and businessman is President Donald Trump's pick to be Secretary of the Interior. The confirmation hearing is scheduled for Thurs., Jan 16, 2025.

Trio of Trump loyalists who conveyed strong fossil fuel advocacy are set for Senate confirmation to lead the U.S. Energy and Interior Depts and EPA—as sworn-in president unleashes flurry of orders to accelerate oil and gas projects,

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Doug Burgum described Trump’s aspiration to achieve ... Carbon-capture skeptics say the technology is untested at scale and allows the fossil-fuel industry to continue largely unchanged.