Washington aims to fill the niche with American exports, Chris Wright has said Washington is aiming to reduce European imports of Russian natural gas to “zero” and replace them with American exports, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said. Currently, Europe buys nearly half of its gas from Russia, he said in a virtual press conference on Thursday. “We’re driving to move that to zero, and the biggest filler of that hole has been energy exports from the United States,” Wright said. “We want to