Rachel Maddow called Bill a genius of exposition. Which rings true to me. Who else finds such clear, concise, vivid ways to sum up where we are and where we could and should be?
“It just really got to that point where I was just kind of exhausted by the sales, by the constant trying to explain and remind, like, hey, this is important. Please run this story,” Cain told HEATED. “It just wore on me after a while.”
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The Trump administration and their allies in Congress are the ones standing in the way and making things more expensive. While they kept wind and solar projects off the grid, electricity prices went up 13% last year.
This is such an important interview.
(Heated's new podcast is really worth your time.)
[checks gas prices, insurance prices, howls of rage from rush-hour traffic]
Believable.
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A crucial conversation with inside insight into how and why corporate newsrooms are failing to cover the most important story on Earth.
This is how you write a goddamn headline.
What specifically bothered you about intersectionally
just subscribed -> you should too
This is so sad. We need much more, not less, climate coverage.
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
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.
thank you heather!!
A fantastic conversation between @emorwee.bsky.social , @chasecain.bsky.social , and Tracy Wholf about the realities of pushing for climate coverage inside corporate news outlets.
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Not the most important part of this story, but dude's name is Chase Cain and he reports on (chases?) stories about climate change (a killer). He was born for this, is what I'm saying.
Also, yes, it's increasingly obvious that we're living in a Thomas Pynchon novel. How do those usually end?
This is a really frank and interesting view into what it's like to cover climate change these days. This podcast has been off to a great start.
Thank you Dave!!
Anyway, if you want to support Chase's foray into independent journalism, subscribe to his YouTube channel
Yes, newsrooms are laying off climate reporters left and right. (Our podcast producer was recently laid off by CBS News)
But our story today shows that layoffs aren't the only way climate coverage gets suppressed.
More often, it's death by 1000 cuts
Imagine it's your job to cover the most existential threat to the planet, and yet you're rarely greenlit to talk about THE MAIN REASON WHY IT'S HAPPENING.
This would drive any real journalist insane. It's a wonder more haven't walked away.
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.
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane
This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
Subscribe to real journalism, says NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger — even if it isn’t us. A classy ad. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
I am!! It’s new, about a year in, but I love it
Nothing gives me more energy than basking in the work of the REAL ONES who are staying focused on fossil fuels and climate
extremely glorious news on that front: @emorwee.bsky.social is teaming up w/ former CBS climate journo Tracy Wholf for a new video podcast -->>>
