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Wright Lays Out Trump Energy Agenda: LNG Approvals, Coal, Nuclear and 47 Appliance Rollbacks

September 2, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:07:25

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Jackie DeAngelis on a Fox Business special published September 2, 2025, to lay out the Trump energy agenda. Wright said the quality, affordability and reliability of an energy system dictate how well a country does, and that after four years of obstruction the roadmap is to go the opposite direction: allow LNG export growth, help permit pipelines and build the infrastructure customers and new businesses demand. He said production growth is limited less by resources than by the ability to move gas to factories, homes, power plants and export terminals.

Wright said that in just over 100 days the administration had approved expansions and new LNG terminals with capacity greater than the second-largest exporting nation in the world, as he stated the comparison, and he described natural gas as the fastest-growing energy source on the planet. He connected the buildout to reindustrialization and AI, saying energy-intensive industries such as steel, autos and aluminum left for Asia over twenty years and that AI takes huge amounts of electricity, most of which will come from natural gas in the near term because it is the most affordable and fastest to build.

On coal and nuclear, Wright said coal has been the largest source of global electricity for a hundred years and will remain so for decades, that the short-run policy is to stop closing existing U.S. coal plants, and that the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, shut down two and a half years earlier, would be back online hopefully around the end of the year or early next year, as he stated the timing. He ranked U.S. generation sources as natural gas first, nuclear second and coal third.

The segment closed with President Trump’s remarks on showerheads, faucets, toilets and washing machines, after which Wright said the Energy Department had announced 47 repeals or rollbacks of regulations covering showerheads, stoves, clothes dryers and similar appliances in the preceding days, as he stated the count.

Why it matters

The special is a compact statement of the whole agenda — permitting speed, LNG scale, coal-plant preservation, nuclear restarts and appliance deregulation — with the Secretary’s own numbers attached to each piece.

Scoreboard watch

Wright said the Palisades nuclear plant would be back online around the end of 2025 or early 2026, as he stated the timing. That dated expectation is recorded here without a verdict.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Jackie DeAngelis on Fox Business — September 1, 2025”, 2025-09-02 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-02). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.