Environmental Lawyer, Musician & Artist. Born @ CO2 327.78 ppm. @jasonrylander.bsky.social. Tweets are my own. #ActOnClimate
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Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
It’s great to cross over to Sociopath Twitter to see the depraved reactions when you post something like “we should try not to cause the unnecessary suffering and death of life on earth”
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
It is critical to put the proposed permitting bill into the context of Trump's broader policy effort consolidating power within an unchecked executive, taking it from the public.
The U.S. Public Is Losing Its Say on Environmental Policy.
e360.yale.edu/features/publi… via @YaleE360
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Breaking a long X-fast because this is too important not to say. My take on why John Podesta's take on BAAJA is absolutely right.
earthjustice.org/experts/abi…
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Quite the coalition now opposing this bill: NAACP, tribes, John Podesta...
🗞️Breaking: the @NAACP just published a document strongly criticizing #BAAJA, and lays out its vision and demands for how permitting should work. Link in next post. #permitting #energy #climate
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
“Make work for litigators”. Imagine attacking environmental lawyers. What’s next? Civil rights lawyers? As if they’re out to make a cheap buck.
Man, fuck you.
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
This thing where corporate-funded think tank people try to delegitimize organizations standing up to their patrons is GROSS. Have some shame! Stop it!
NRDC does a lot of things, many of them valuable and important.
But it’s worth putting these specific objections in context: some green groups exist mostly to file lawsuits and thus have a vested interest in opposing any restrictions on lawsuits, period—regardless of whether they advance worthwhile goals or are just make-work for litigators.
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Funny how Searchlight, whose whole deal is (ostensibly) getting Dems to be a supermajority, went all in on permitting reform, which lands on the wrong side of multiple supermajority issues (public lands, clean air/water, data centers).
Maybe just ignore these guys from now on?
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Who do you trust: fossil fuel industry-funded think tanks or the nation's leading climate advocates? I know who I'm going with.
.@JaneAFlegal, I’m sorry, but @NRDC’s team of litigators completely agree with @johnpodesta and the threat the permitting bill is to iconic places across the U.S. Here’s why:
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Analytically, it doesn't speak highly of the BAAJA proponents' strategy if they couldn't get Podesta on board at the outset, given that he has long clashed with conservation groups on this very issue.
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
The Bill enable new natural gas pipelines to be built to expand existing capacity without any environmental review 👇 , and it doesn’t mandate that data centers connect themselves to the grid.
BAAJA helps data centers, which is why Big Tech supports the bill.
People keep saying the permitting bill helps data centers, but if you read the bill it's just not true.
The permitting bill requires data centers to pay for all costs they impose on the grid - so Americans' bills won't go up because of big tech.
It also empowers states to charge data centers extra, require data centers to bring their own power, require data centers to power down during peak demand time, and to treat data centers less favorably than other large industrial customers.
This is in contrast to other bills like the "Ratepayer Protection Act," which was voluntary.
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Is the narrative that NEPA is a major factor in delaying renewable energy projects complete bunk?
Except the data on "NEPA delays are the problem" doesn't pan out at all. Ruple/Adelman/Pleune took that claim out back and shot it once and for all this year.
scholarworks.umt.edu/plrlr/v…
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
NEPA in many ways is like FOIA, it constrains the government from acting in the shadows. The gutting of the law will make it much harder for Americans to know what their government is doing.
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
The good, the bad, and the ugly of the permitting bill from the view of @NRDC's experts. This isn't comprehensive but we cover a lot. The TL:DR - the transmission stuff is REALLY good, but we have deep concerns about other elements of the bill and want to see changes. nrdc.org/media/nrdc-assessme…
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
.@JaneAFlegal, I’m sorry, but @NRDC’s team of litigators completely agree with @johnpodesta and the threat the permitting bill is to iconic places across the U.S. Here’s why:
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
And in greater depth from an extraordinary environmental lawyer @AbbieDillen at @EarthjusticeAct as to why @johnpodesta is correct about the consequences of what the permitting bill could do to places across this country: earthjustice.org/experts/abi…"
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
Maybe it's not the time to cut regulations that would make natural gas infrastructure expansion even easier?
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this cordinated campaign to delegimatize Muslim Americans - not just as citizens but as humans.
These increasingly hysterical attacks are a prelude to Republicans bringing us to a very, very dark place after the election.
Jason Rylander 🌎☮️🕊️ retweeted
What it changes is it takes away the tools local communities have to protect their land, preserve wildlife, and block dangerous fossil fuel projects. In exchange for…clean energy stuff that Trump will still absolutely kill. Even mods like Podesta are saying it’s a rotten deal.
