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Carbon Credits Failure: Sachs, Romm, Rockström

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 21, 2025

“Low-quality carbon offsets are undermining global decarbonisation efforts. Around 40% of existing carbon pricing schemes allow the use of offsets, most with no effective limits on quality or quantity. Recent analysis shows that fewer than 16% of more than 2,300 offset projects actually delivered the emission reductions they promised.” – Johan Rockström, (Potsdam Institute)

“Don’t get tangled up in your own underwear,” an old saying goes. Such applies to the carbon management schemes created by governmental anti-CO2 policy.

You reap what you sow. If you politicize an issue by introducing government intervention into voluntary market transactions, then expect suboptimal outcomes. Call it government failure in the attempt to address alleged market failure.

Shame that Big Green does not see itself as the problem rather than “wrong” public policies. And here we are: the Progressive Left complaining about bad climate policy decades after they themselves went political.…

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U.S. Out of UN ‘Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 20, 2025

“The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced the withdrawal of interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions.” (- Federal Reserve Board, October 16, 2025) [1]

“The private sector can fend for itself versus global government and the pretense of climate knowledge. The United Nations should not have indirect regulatory authority over the United States. The United States comes first.” (below)

Climate activist Laurie Schoeman, “working at crossroads of climate risk, housing, and capital markets,” posted on social media:

The Federal Reserve Board has announced that U.S. federal finance agencies who regulate our banking and financial sector [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Federal Reserve Board; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] are withdrawing from the Interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management — a framework designed to help large financial institutions manage exposure to climate risk.

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Avian Mortality: Industrial Wind in Ecological Trouble

By Sherri Lange -- October 16, 2025

“Wind projects are known to kill eagles, and climate extremists in the Biden admin still greenlit scores of these projects. @Interior is enforcing the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!” ( – Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, X)

The U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, posted a memorandum back in August calling on the agency to ensure compliance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, “to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!”

This is a long overdue threat to major wind projects that have been living a lie. After all, it was the Los Angeles director of the Sierra Club who coined the term “Cuisinarts of the Air” to capture the bird-chopping nature of industrial blades to the most treasured/protected birds of prey.…

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Lose It: Towards a Tax-neutral Energy Market

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 15, 2025
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DOE Secretary Chris Wright: Energy Exceptionalism Quotations

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 14, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: October 13, 2025

By -- October 13, 2025
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Utility-scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “wind-down’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 9, 2025
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Federal EV Credit Out, Leaving Blue State Subsidies

By Kennedy Maize -- October 8, 2025
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Solar, Wind ESG/ETC Closures Accelerate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 7, 2025
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Net Zero Banking Alliance Terminated

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 6, 2025
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