The executive has taken a defiant approach to fighting climate change by attacking policies that call for shifting away from fossil fuels.

Trump picked industry executive Chris Wright as his nominee to be Energy secretary and to join a new Council of National Energy.

President-elect Donald Trump named Chris Wright to lead the Department of Energy after vowing from the campaign trail to make America energy independent.

As President-elect Donald Trump makes a flurry of choices to fill out his incoming administration's Cabinet, the lobbying for key positions has been fierce behind closed doors — and sometimes publicly.

Now billionaire and key Trump ally Elon Musk is calling for more direct public input into the decision-making process for at least one top post — the head of the Treasury Department. Would be interesting to hear more people weigh in on this for @realDonaldTrump to consider feedback.