Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official

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Source: Politico

08/09/2025 02:00 PM EDT


The Trump administration is aiming to replace a top-ranking official at the International Energy Agency, amid a ratcheted-up U.S. pressure campaign on the Paris-based body, multiple energy industry insiders and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO’s E&E News.

The agency’s second-in-command, a retired State Department official named Mary Warlick, is the main target for replacement, said the insiders, who were granted anonymity to speak freely.

The pressure follows months of public frustrations with the IEA from top Trump administration officials, most notably Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who has vowed to make changes at the body or withdraw U.S. support. Some Republicans say the IEA has discouraged investment in fossil fuels by publishing analyses that show near-term peaks in global demand for oil and gas.

“The product that the IEA produces is not generally accepted by everybody. It’s just not,” said Mark Menezes, who served as deputy Energy secretary during Trump’s first term. “And the political context has changed.” The Trump administration is aiming to push changes internally, according to a Republican energy lobbyist with close ties to the Department of Energy.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/09/trump-team-pushes-for-ouster-of-top-iea-official-cw-00495441

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1. Like BLS, Trump has something that displeases DEAR LEADER

“They want to get operatives in there, whether they’re career or political, who can actually move the needle,” said the lobbyist. “They’re going to get someone they trust and that person is going to fight from the inside out.”


Wright has criticized the IEA for its projection that oil demand will peak this decade, calling it “nonsensical” in a Breitbart interview in June. Republicans also bristled at the Biden administration’s use of IEA analysis in 2024 to justify a U.S. decision to pause consideration of new liquefied natural gas export permits.

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2. Dark evil tentacles reaching everywhere

To destroy any thing good.

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3. Mary Warlick is ultra-extreme, far left-wing

from the viewpoint of the fossil fuel party

Some more from the article:

The IEA’s second-ranking position has traditionally been filled by an American.

In 2021 that post went to Warlick, a former career diplomat who served as ambassador to Serbia from 2010 to 2012 and previously sat on the National Security Council as the senior director for Russia. From 2014 to 2017, Warlick was the State Department’s principal deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of Energy Resources and represented the U.S. on the IEA governing board.

The U.S. provides around 14% of the IEA's budget in recent years

Warlick rarely speaks publicly. At an Atlantic Council event in 2022, she said that the clean energy investment caused “geopolitical fragmentation” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“Such investment is still well below the level needed to bring emissions down if we are to keep net-zero and sustainable development goals in sight,” Warlick said. “Massive investment in clean energy is the best guarantee of energy security in the future, and it will also drive down harmful greenhouse gas emissions.”

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OMG! She said THAT!