U.S. President-elect Donald Trump¹ announced Wednesday he will pick former Texas governor Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy.

 

美国候任总统特朗普周三宣布将任命德州前州长里克·佩里为能源部部长。

 

"As the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry created a business climate that produced millions of new jobs and lower energy prices in his state, and he will bring that same approach to our entire country as Secretary of Energy," Trump said in a statement.

 

Perry, 66, served as governor of Texas from 2000 to January 2015, the longest serving governor in the history of the state.

 

Perry ran twice unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination² for president in 2012 and 2016.

 

Since Perry has repeatedly questioned scientific findings that human activity is warming our planet, his nomination has drawn³ criticism from some environmentalists.

 

"Yet again, Trump has chosen an unqualified individual who is at war with the central mission of the agency he is being nominated to lead," Rhea Suh, president of the U.S. Natural Resources Defense⁴ Council, a nonprofit environmental organization, said in a statement.

 

"By nominating Perry, President-elect Trump is continuing to pack his cabinet with allies of big polluters who put profits over people ... We oppose Perry and this entire special interest take-over of the American government," Suh said.

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