American shale billionaire from Oklahoma. A backer of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, he persuaded Trump to name Christopher Wright, a fellow shale driller, as America's secretary of energy. In 2025 Hamm convened a secret meeting of oilmen in Tulsa, ostensibly to promote the use of natural gas to power data centres for artificial intelligence; insiders say plans were hatched to tilt federal regulation to favour fossil fuels over renewables. Four members of the cabinet were reportedly present.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.