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Former Trump Energy Sec Who Unleashed Production Boom Positioned for Return to Admin

Trump's victory is 'a pivotal moment to reshape U.S. energy policy,' former energy secretary Dan Brouillette says

As Donald Trump's energy secretary, Dan Brouillette unleashed an energy boom, with America becoming a net energy exporter and producer for the first time in 75 years thanks to record-high oil and gas production. Now, Brouillette is positioned to potentially serve in the second Trump administration, saying Trump's victory is an opportunity to "reshape U.S. energy policy" and usher in "an era of unprecedented innovation."

After four years of the Biden-Harris administration, which prioritized green energy policies to fight climate change and rolled back Trump-era energy policies in the process, proponents of an all-of-the-above energy strategy are excited about the possibility of Brouillette returning to the Trump administration.

The excitement underscores the centrality of energy policy to Trump's economic vision. The president-elect has made clear he views slashing energy prices as the key to battling inflation and blunting the spike in housing prices. "If we open up American energy, you will get immediate pricing release, relief, for American citizens—not, by the way, just in housing, but in a whole host of other economic goods too," Trump's vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, said during a debate.

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Trump selected Brouillette to serve as deputy energy secretary in 2017 and to serve as energy secretary in 2019, after then-secretary Rick Perry left the department. Brouillette is the only person ever to receive Senate confirmation for both roles. After serving in the administration, he was hired as the president of the energy firm Sempra Infrastructure and, two years later, as president of the Edison Electric Institute, the nation's largest industry group representing power providers.

In interviews with the Washington Free Beacon, several former Trump administration officials and energy industry officials, all of whom have extensive experience working with Brouillette, lauded the former energy secretary as someone who could advance Trump's agenda and unwind the Biden-Harris administration's restrictive regulations.

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Filling energy-related policy roles in the Trump administration, meanwhile, will likely receive an increased level of scrutiny from Trump and his senior transition staff. The president-elect campaigned on increasing energy independence and energy security and curbing burdensome climate regulations implemented by the Biden-Harris administration. Trump also promised to reinstate his first administration's energy agenda, much of which was overseen by Brouillette.

"I think the world of him," said Mark Menezes, the president of the United States Energy Association, who served as Brouillette's deputy at the Energy Department in 2020. "He's got the skillset necessary to run any agency. He showed that at DOE, whether it's a job in the White House or even international."

"Under his leadership, the U.S. became the leading producer of oil and natural gas globally, and really served as a huge counterbalance to the countries that for years had dominated the price and supply of oil," Menezes said. "That's what changed under his leadership."

While he served in the Department of Energy, Brouillette spearheaded efforts to boost America's nuclear power footprint and created a first-ever artificial intelligence office.

He also served on the White House National Security Council and National Space Council and was one of Trump's top advisers on energy and nuclear-weapons matters.

"When you look back at what DOE did under the Trump administration, Dan Brouillette is at the core of all of it," said Neil Chatterjee, who served as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during the Trump administration. "While he certainly has conservative bonafides, I know a lot of Democrats who may not agree with all of his views on policy, but they respect it and they respect that he's a serious person and not a hack and not an ideologue."

Brouillette's work bolstering liquefied natural gas export projects to energy-needy allies in Europe and Asia is especially relevant given the Biden-Harris administration's actions. In January, the White House gave in to environmental activists' demands and issued a moratorium on permitting such projects to allow time for a federal study analyzing their climate impacts.

The Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on gas exports is ultimately something Brouillette could quickly unwind if Trump selects him to lead the Department of Energy once more. Sempra Infrastructure, the company Brouillette led after departing the Department of Energy, is one of the nation's largest developers of natural gas export projects.

"When he was deputy secretary, he went to Germany several times—Germany at that time didn't have any import terminals," a former Department of Energy official who worked with Brouillette told the Free Beacon. "It was very reliant on Russian gas. And Dan was able to get the Germans to build their first import terminal. That was the first sort of stage of American LNG coming into Germany."

"He understands energy markets," the former official added. "He understands nuclear technology, he understands renewables, he understands that all of those are needed in order to have the most stable, secure, as well as affordable and clean energy balance that we can possibly have, and not just here in the United States, but for the world. He's very pragmatic about it and I think that translates into an all-of-the-above energy strategy."

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