As the highest-ranking U.S. official at the United Nations’s annual climate summit, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) used the spotlight to tout California as a leader in curbing climate change and bash the Trump administration for its absence.

Newsom was in attendance at the U.N.’s annual climate summit, COP30, in Brazil this week. Newsom has used the climate summit to criticize the Trump administration for reversing course from the Biden administration and cutting policies meant to boost clean energy in favor of fossil fuels, as well as to burnish his climate credentials as a possible 2028 presidential candidate.

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