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Wright With Stuart Varney: Defending the DOE Climate Report and the Case Against Offshore Wind

September 3, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:04:34

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Fox Business’s Stuart Varney on September 3, 2025, according to the Department of Energy’s recording, and was asked about dozens of scientists denouncing the administration’s climate report as full of errors and cherry-picked data. Wright responded that climate science has become political, and that over 90 percent of what is mentioned in the department’s report comes straight out of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, amplified from long, detailed reports. He said the physical data shows change that is real but not alarming, not fast-moving and nowhere near the world’s biggest problem, as he summarized the report’s findings.

Asked about the halted offshore wind project off Rhode Island and former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette’s warning that pulling a permit at a late stage sets an unfortunate precedent, Wright said the details sit with the Interior Department, but argued there has been massive, long-ignored public opposition to offshore wind. He said offshore wind is twice as expensive as onshore wind, which he called already the most expensive and least productive energy source, and that wind overall supplies less than 2 percent of U.S. energy while oil and gas supply over 70 percent, figures he cited in the interview. He said Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom went headlong into offshore wind and now have the world’s most expensive electricity, and he did not expect existing windmills to be removed.

Wright also welcomed an appeals court ruling that climate groups cannot access $16 billion from what the host called the Biden green slush fund, calling it a major win. He said the government should not be funding activist groups, which he accused of using the money to file lawsuits and frighten children, and he argued the climate issue is used by the left to pursue bigger government and top-down control rather than being justified by the science and economics, as he presented his position.

Why it matters

The climate report fight is the administration’s bid to reset the scientific framing of its energy policy, and Wright’s cost case against offshore wind supplies the rationale for the permit halts now working through the courts.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Stuart Varney on Fox Business — September 3, 2025”, 2025-09-03 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-03). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.