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Wright Discusses Pennsylvania-to-New York Gas Pipeline and Russian Diesel Arrangement on Fox News

October 19, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:04:54

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined Fox News on October 19, 2026, according to the Department of Energy. The host introduced a report that the Energy Department was using a wartime law to advance a natural gas pipeline carrying low-cost, reliable fuel from Pennsylvania to New York, with the agency providing $42 million in financing to accelerate the line, as stated in the segment; the transcript for this video is Arabic-rendered auto-captions, paraphrased here faithfully with figures as stated.

Wright said the administration had fought for a year to build the line and that it would lower electricity prices and make the grid safer in cold winters for New York and New England, as he stated it. He said New England governors had approved, that New York’s governor had been an obstacle, and that President Trump looks daily for ways to lower energy prices, as he stated it.

Wright also addressed a diesel arrangement involving Russia. He said the United States had not lifted sanctions on Russian oil exports — which he described as the strongest U.S. sanctions on Russia in history — and that Russia currently exports no diesel, as he stated it. Allowing diesel exports, he said, was intended both to ease a global diesel shortage and to give Russia an incentive tied to calming its conflict with Ukraine, whether through an energy truce, ending the war, or reducing its intensity, as he stated it. He said no diesel had yet been released — the figure discussed in the segment was 300,000 metric tons for October — and that he did not expect a large price effect before the elections, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The interview records two checkable administration positions as Wright stated them: federal backing, including $42 million as reported in the segment, for a Pennsylvania-to-New York pipeline over state-level opposition, and a conditional diesel opening toward Russia that Wright said requires movement on Ukraine.

Scoreboard watch

Wright said no Russian diesel had yet moved under the arrangement discussed — 300,000 metric tons for October, as stated in the segment — a checkable claim against subsequent export reporting.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Fox News - October 19, 2026”, 2026-10-19 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-10-19). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.