In search of hidden highway clear-cutting the Amazon to UN’s COP30
https://www.cfact.org/2025/11/14/in-search-of-hidden-highway-clear-cutting-the-amazon-to-cop30/ By Craig Rucker, Peter Murphy Somewhere in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil Thursday morning of the first week of the UN COP30 Climate Summit, CFACT set out to find the new highway being constructed through the Amazon rainforest — the very roadway no climate activist wants to discuss or pretends doesn’t exist. Thanks to an exclusive […]
POLITICO: Newsom is a rock star at COP — with 1 glaring weakness – He can’t sign treaties with other countries.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/limits-newsom-climate-powers-00650172 By CAMILLE VON KAENEL BELÉM, Brazil — Gov. Gavin Newsom may be a climate president in waiting, but as a governor, he has one glaring weakness: He can’t sign treaties with other countries. Newsom is returning to a time-tested technique to exercise soft power at COP 30 this week: signing voluntary agreements, joint statements […]
Politico: ‘Climate backsliding comes for blue-state governors’ – ‘The Democrats’ fervor is showing cracks — as they face legal limits, shape-shifting political realities & economic headwinds’
Take Pennsylvania, where Gov. Josh Shapiro dismayed his green-minded supporters this week by agreeing to withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Northeast’s carbon cap-and-trade program. …
Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul approved a natural gas pipeline that Trump supports and signed off on a deal to keep a gas-fueled cryptocurrency mining operation running for five more years…
More compromises on climate policies may be coming,
The party has retreated on a cap on oil industry profits and clean fuel mandates, seemingly spooked by the potential for higher fuel prices if refineries close. And Newsom’s administration has tried to keep open one key refinery in Northern California. …
Newsom faces grumbling at home about how California’s Democratic leaders are standing up for the environment — or not. The party has retreated on a cap on oil industry profits and clean fuel mandates, seemingly spooked by the potential for higher fuel prices if refineries close. And Newsom’s administration has tried to keep open one key refinery in Northern California. …
The next big decision for a Democratic governor may come in Massachusetts. Lawmakers there are advancing, on a bipartisan basis, legislation to significantly water down the state’s major climate commitments, including making its 2030 emissions targets nonbinding and slashing money for energy efficiency.
COP30 to Clear-Cut30 to CRAP30! Week 1 Round-Up: UN urges delegates ‘not to flush toilet paper…in the toilets at the COP 30′ – Summit empowers China – Hamburgers sell out at UN! – Gore says Gates ‘Silly’ & fears Trump!
Week One Round-up – Reporting from Belém, Brazil, for the UN climate summit. I have attended in-person 21 out of the past 23 international UN climate/environmental summits. (Attending 19 UN COPs since 2004 — having only missed 2 COPs in 21. years). I also attended two UN Earth Summits – one in Johannesburg, South Africa, […]