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At The New York Krazy Klimate Konference, 2025 Edition

Two years ago, in November 2023, my friend Roger Caiazza and I attended a conference put on by a local news source called City & State. They called their conference the “Clean Energy New York Summit: The Path to Sustainability.” I called it the Krazy Klimate Konference, and I wrote about it in a post on November 18, 2023 titled  “At The New York Krazy Klimate Konference.” Last year both Roger and I skipped the Konference, and this year Roger again wisely decided to stay home in Syracuse. But I was morbidly curious as to how this crowd of climate grifters and subsidy farmers would react to the rapid derailment of their gravy train during the first ten months of President Trump’s second term. And for me, the venue was only about a 10 minute subway ride away, at the southern tip of Manhattan. So I rounded up my daughter Jane (who had to trek in from Queens) to accompany me, and off we went. This year they slightly re-titled the Konference to  “Energy Infrastructure Summit: Ne...
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China Goes N2N – Natural Gas to Nuclear

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The claim that China’s economy is “increasingly driven by clean technologies,” doesn’t match the reality. According to the latest Statistical Review of World Energy, hydrocarbons provided 88% of China’s total energy needs last year, that’s slightly above the global average of 87%. The US gets 83% of its energy from hydrocarbons.   As shown above, China got 21 times more energy from coal, oil, and natural gas last year than from solar and wind . If, as Ember claimed a few months ago that China is “reshaping the global energy landscape,” it sure is taking its sweet time about it.  Coal alone provides more than 14 times as much energy to the Chinese economy as wind and solar combined. That inconvenient fact didn’t get a mention by Ember. Xi has made it clear that he wants China to be self-sufficient in energy, food, and strategic elements, declaring, “ The energy rice bowl must be held in our own hands . Increased gas production is a central part of Xi’s “rice bowl” strategy. Ove...
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HOCHUL EMBRACES GAS DELGADO SNAGS ENDORSEMENTS POLITICO NY & NJ Energy

POLITICO Weekly New York & New Jersey Energy   By  MARIE J. FRENCH  and  MONA ZHANG     11/17/2025 10:00 AM EST . HOCHUL EMBRACES GAS  — POLITICO’s Marie J. French and Mona Zhang:  Facing a tough reelection battle next year, Gov. Kathy Hochul is steering a monumental pivot on energy policy. Hochul approved a new gas pipeline championed by President Donald Trump and cut a deal that will keep a  gas-fueled cryptocurrency miner running  for five more years.  The two decisions have sparked outrage from the progressive environmental wing of her party — with three climate-focused groups  pointedly endorsing her primary opponent  last week. “She did not just approve a fossil fuel project. She made a moral choice,” Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who is primarying Hochul, said “New Yorkers deserve a governor who does not treat the climate crisis as a PR problem, but as a test of moral leadership.” With Trump’s antipathy toward renew...
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Pennsylvania Abandons its Leading Climate Policy

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has withdrawn his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, leaving the state with the fourth-highest emissions in the country without a significant climate policy. The cap-and-trade market included 10 other states, including all of New England, New York, and some Mid-Atlantic states. After a two-year legal fight over the state’s decision to quit the carbon-cutting alliance through regulatory fiat, Virginia’s Republicans governor successfully  exited  the group. But, as  E&E News  noted, Shapiro is the first governor from any party to sign legislation pulling his state out of RGGI. The millions generated from RGGI were earmarked for clean energy and transportation projects in the commonwealth. Philadelphia’s transit system is teetering on the brink of a budget crisis, alongside the bus and light-rail network in San Francisco and Chicago,  Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo wrote  last month. Shapiro, widely considered...
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The Last Gasp of the Climate Thought Police

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Editorial: Climate Act hits headwinds

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Six years ago, New York passed a landmark law to dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century. Yet the state keeps going out of its way to violate both the spirit and the letter of that law.   From missing mandatory deadlines to encouraging even more use of fossil fuels to delaying implementation of a ban on oil and gas appliances, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration seems to be happy to tout itself as a climate leader even as it dodges the sorts of hard choices and tough actions that the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act demands.   The latest of those violations came in a one-two punch.   First, the Department of Environmental Conservation approved the Northeast Supply Enhancement, a pipeline for fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania to an offshore transfer point near Queens. The line will increase supply for New York City and Long Island.   The move is doubly hypocritical. Keeping the gas supply abundant will make it that...
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COPE 30? Conference tackles climate anxiety

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November 12, 2025    Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about  climate change . That’s because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of planet-warming gases, released primarily from oil, gas and coal. Some of the information coming out of the  COP30 conference  is bleak. But it’s not just COP. Climate stories can be difficult to consume year-round, whether it’s about natural disasters, victims of heat waves or sea level rise or new studies about global warming impacts. “When you throw a ton of scary facts and information at people, their nervous system shuts down. It’s a coping mechanism,” said Sarah Newman, founder and executive director of the Climate Mental Health Network. That sense of dread, doom, fear or hopelessness gets lumped into a single term:  climate anxiety . Surveys from the  American Psychiatric Association  have repeatedly shown that a significant numb...
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