Jason Rylander

They lie. It’s what they do.

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

One reason climate reporters are pushed out of the newsroom: their editors refuse to allow them to tell the truth about the problem.

Case in point: only 8 percent of all corporate broadcast climate segments in 2025 mentioned fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.

Now is the moment for GM to introduce an electric Geo Tracker and sell a million units this year

Use the Defense Production Act to produce an electric Geo Tracker and be legends

Under New Guidance, 'Sustainable' Aviation Fuel in the US Could Be Anything But Under new guidance, Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for "sustainable" aviation fuel will go to options like corn ethanol, which increase carbon emissions and food insecurity.

More generally, dedicating land to biofuel production causes higher emissions than burning fossil fuels—& diverts land from food production.

Even so, these fuels are still being promoted as a climate solution, w “hard to decarbonize” sectors like aviation & shipping eyeing crop-based biofuels.

So good. Very much worth your time. RIP. 🪦

Every quote I give to journalists these days is just basically, “this is INSANE??? Hello???!!!”.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A914 NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY No. 25A915 PETER KOSINSKI, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [March 2, 2026] The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court are granted. The January 21, 2026 order entered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 164002/2025, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from grant of stay. The Court's 101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: "Rules for thee, but not for me." Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an elec-tion. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one. Ignoring every limit on federal courts' authority, the Court takes the unprecedented step of staying a state trial court's decision in a re-districting dispute on matters of state law without giving the State's highest court a chance to act. Because that order violates basic principles of jurisdiction, federalism, and equity, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Doesn’t work. Never has. And we don’t learn.

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family. Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland.

Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.

(Published Aug. 2025)

For decades the right wing has hosted private judicial seminars in fancy locations - junkets for judges - to coach them in free market anti-regulatory ideology. And they got away with it. Now they whine and essentially ban a manual on science because it doesn’t fit their narrative?

If Trump can start one illegal war, or any illegal exercise of power really, and get away with it with no significant consequences, he’ll assume he can do ANY illegal exercise of power.

Anything.

We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires - Berkeley News A study led by a UC Berkeley researcher reconstructed emissions from Swedish wildfires and found that current climate estimates are failing to fully account for carbon released from smoldering organic...

We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires

A study reconstructed emissions from Swedish wildfires and found that current climate estimates are failing to fully account for carbon released from smoldering organic soils.

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Who actually uses environmental journalism — and why it matters In 2025, Mongabay recorded 111 million unique visitors to its websites, a 46% increase on the year before. Pageviews rose by 72%. Those figures capture direct readership only. They exclude…

Who actually uses environmental journalism — and why it matters

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Mark Twain

And this is another reason why every country should be transitioning to renewables. It will remake the world order.

The American people voted for lower costs and no more wars.

Trump is raising costs and just started ANOTHER war.   

It's a straight-up betrayal. 

More expensive. Less safe. That’s life under Trump.

Paramount-Warner Would Create a Hollywood Jobs Apocalypse - The American Prospect The deal comes complete with so much debt that it would almost certainly lead to mass job loss. That could prove to be an argument against the deal in court, too.

I'm off this week and I wrote this before we got our war on this weekend.
The Paramount-Warner merger is actually a private equity takeover. The amount of leverage used in the purchase rivals the PE deals for Toys "R" Us and Nabisco. Those ended with mass layoffs, and this will too—by design.

This.

Trump partying in Florida as American soldiers die from his feckless decision. If that ain't MAGA what is.

US-Israeli-led bombing hit a girls school…

Death toll now at 150

A war launched illegally by two depraved men desperate to cling to power and stay out of jail

…and they call others terrorists.

21% is still too many.

That SOB is going to get us all killed.

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet.

10 years.

One of those costs there’s probably no way to quantify but is obviously huge is just the huge deadweight loss of time and mental energy spent thinking and talking about Trump relative to a normalish president.

Governors are promising lower power bills. Here’s the only credible path to deliver. If we treat every new megawatt like it must be served with new poles, wires, substations and peakers, we will lock in another decade of rate shock, write Jigar Shah and Arnab Pal from Deploy Action.

🧵 Governors are promising lower power bills.
Here’s the only credible path to actually deliver them.

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Electricity bills are becoming the next major cost-of-living crisis.

Unlike groceries or housing, governors can’t blame markets b/c. utility rates are set through government bodies

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath.

The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

Two of my best friends are from high school.

The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

Sounds accurate to me.