on Dec 21, 2025 (Schwartzreport from: info@schwartzreport.net)
Dani Anguiano, West Coast Breaking News Reporter – The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Here is some good news, finally. As I look at the trends each day, what I see confirmed again and again is the inferiority of Republican governance. The Republican Party is not interested in fostering wellbeing, all its members care about is power and greed. So if you look at any social outcome data you like, health, literacy, life expectancy, whatever, you see the Red states always have inferior numbers.
For the first time, clean energy provided 100% of the state’s power almost every day for at least some of the day in 2025.
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As officials from around the world met in Brazil for the Cop30 climate summit last month, the US president was nowhere to be found, nor were any members of his cabinet. Instead, the most prominent American voice in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species” and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy. Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that, as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a “stable, reliable” climate leader and partner.
Among the talking points he used to demonstrate California’s leadership was its progress on renewable energy – and the battery capacity needed to store that power.
“We’re running the fourth-largest economy in the world [on] 67%, two thirds, clean energy on nine out […]