Secretary Wright From Davos: The 2026 Energy Agenda, Reindustrialization and Greenland

Name: "Secretary Wright From Davos: The 2026 Energy Agenda, Reindustrialization and Greenland"
Uploaded: 2026-01-20
Duration: 6 min 3 s
Description: "Energy Secretary Chris Wright, speaking from Davos with Fox News's Harris Faulkner, said the president's 2026 agenda is growing energy production at home and abroad to push down prices and raise wages, described a global pivot toward affordable and reliable energy, and called Greenland an early-stage negotiation likely to end well."

January 20, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:06:03

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Fox News’s Harris Faulkner from Davos on January 20, 2026, ahead of President Trump’s keynote address to the World Economic Forum. Wright summarized the president’s message: grow energy production in the United States and abroad, which pushes down energy prices and grows demand for American workers, pushing up wages — in his words, the 2026 agenda in a nutshell.

Wright said that in 12 months President Trump had changed the global energy discussion. He said that at Davos he had not heard the familiar message that climate change is the end of the world and hydrocarbons must be eliminated; instead, he described a pivot he has seen across Europe and Asia toward embracing affordable, reliable, secure energy and better job opportunities, with the U.S. leading the way.

He credited America’s energy dominance — as by far the world’s biggest producer of oil and natural gas — with giving the president leverage and preventing Middle East uncertainty from disrupting gasoline and home heating prices for Americans. Domestically, he said deregulation has unleashed production and sent a message to companies to build factories in the United States, predicting a lot of shovels in the ground in 2026 and upward pressure on working-class wages. Asked about Greenland, Wright likened it to earlier Middle East skepticism: an early negotiation with uncertainty and tension, which he said he believes will reach a great result, as he stated it.

Why it matters

Wright’s Davos appearance exports the administration’s energy-dominance argument to the World Economic Forum audience and reports — as the secretary’s own observation — that the global climate-first framing has receded among business and political leaders.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox News’ Harris Faulkner - January 20, 2026”, 2026-01-20 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-01-20). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.

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