Shift Key with Robinson Meyer

Heatmap News

Every week, Heatmap News Executive Editor Robinson Meyer and a guest make sense of the biggest shift of our time -- navigating the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Drawing on their years of experience reporting on and researching climate change and decarbonization, Meyer and his partners unpack the most important issues of the week and how the impacts of climate change and efforts to address it are transforming our economy, politics, and society at large. Music by Adam Kromelow.

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20 episodes
Updated Wednesday

Episodes20

Newest first

What a Permitting Reform Deal Could Look Like
Rob talks with Daniel Palken, the director of infrastructure for energy and permitting at Arnold Ventures, about the policies that would probably make up a grand bargain.
Wednesday · 1 hr 18 min
What Barbecue Sauce Has in Common With Carbon Removal
Rob talks with Charm Industrial cofounder Peter Reinhardt about “liquid smoke” and how it can store greenhouse gas at gigaton scale.
July 24 · 1 hr 3 min
The Company That’s Raised $60 Million to Geoengineer the Planet
Rob sits down for a conversation with Stardust Solutions CEO Yanai Yedvab.
July 15 · 1 hr 1 min
The New Paper Arguing Biden’s Power Sector Emissions Cuts Are Largely Intact — Even Under Trump
Rob talks with Columbia’s Lily Bermel about where climate policy should go next.
July 6 · 49 min
Why Meta’s Longtime CTO Is Investing in Climate Tech
Rob talks with Gigascale Capital’s Mike Schroepfer about why he’s convinced that clean and cheap will win.
June 30 · 54 min
How China Saved the World From Trump’s Energy Crisis
Rob checks in with Commodity Context’s Rory Johnston as the Iran War (hopefully) draws to a close.
June 24 · 55 min
Anthropic and the Future of the Buzzy Carbon Removal Buyer's Club
Rob talks with Hannah Bebbington Valori, head of Frontier Climate, about the group’s new $915 million fund.
June 17 · 32 min
The Other, Other Big Race in Georgia This Year
Rob talks with Georgia Public Service Commissioner-slash-candidate Peter Hubbard.
June 11 · 36 min
Affordability Politics Took On New York’s Climate Law — and Won
Rob gets into the latest state-level policy developments with Heatmap’s own Emily Pontecorvo.
June 2 · 31 min
Nvidia’s Case for Why AI Will Cut Emissions
Rob sits down with the Josh Parker, head of sustainability at America’s world-leading chip designer.
May 26 · 48 min
How Los Angeles Cleaned Up the World’s Air Pollution
Rob talks with UCLA law professor Ann Carlson about her fascinating new book, Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air.
May 22 · 49 min
This Year’s Beijing Auto Show Has a Lesson for Trump
Fresh off the plane back, Kate Logan and Jeremy Wallace talk with Rob about their impressions on the state China’s EV market.
May 15 · 47 min
What’s Truly Baffling About the Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis
With markets surging and the crucial waterway still closed, Rob seeks clarity from the founding director of Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy, Jason Bordoff.
May 13 · 48 min
What Has All This Back-and-Forth Climate Legislating Bought Us?
Rob takes stock of both Biden and Trump’s climate legacies with John Bistline and Ryna Cui.
May 11 · 36 min
The Big Interview: John Arnold
Rob chats with the billionaire and clean energy investor about permitting reform and the Iran energy crisis.
May 6 · 58 min
Some Great News About the Global Electricity System
Rob chats with Ember’s Nicolas Fulghum about the think tank’s newest report.
May 1 · 40 min
Everything We Didn't Know About the World’s Buzziest Geothermal Startup
Rob dives into Fervo’s S-1 filing with Princeton professor Jesse Jenkins and Heatmap’s Matthew Zeitlin.
April 23 · 44 min
Why Microsoft’s Carbon Removal Pullback Is Such a Big Deal
Rob follows up on his scoop with Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
April 15 · 33 min
Why the Iran Ceasefire Hasn’t Ended the Energy Crisis
Rob talks through what could happen next in the Strait of Hormuz with Commodity Context’s Rory Johnston.
April 9 · 48 min
How Utilities Actually Think
Rob goes deep on one of the most intriguing — and consequential — questions of the energy transition with Breakthrough Energy’s Alice Yake.
April 7 · 1 hr 2 min

Shift Key with Robinson Meyer

What a Permitting Reform Deal Could Look Like

What Barbecue Sauce Has in Common With Carbon Removal

The Company That’s Raised $60 Million to Geoengineer the Planet

The New Paper Arguing Biden’s Power Sector Emissions Cuts Are Largely Intact — Even Under Trump

Why Meta’s Longtime CTO Is Investing in Climate Tech

How China Saved the World From Trump’s Energy Crisis

Anthropic and the Future of the Buzzy Carbon Removal Buyer's Club

The Other, Other Big Race in Georgia This Year

Affordability Politics Took On New York’s Climate Law — and Won

Nvidia’s Case for Why AI Will Cut Emissions

How Los Angeles Cleaned Up the World’s Air Pollution

This Year’s Beijing Auto Show Has a Lesson for Trump

What’s Truly Baffling About the Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis

What Has All This Back-and-Forth Climate Legislating Bought Us?

The Big Interview: John Arnold

Some Great News About the Global Electricity System

Everything We Didn't Know About the World’s Buzziest Geothermal Startup

Why Microsoft’s Carbon Removal Pullback Is Such a Big Deal

Why the Iran Ceasefire Hasn’t Ended the Energy Crisis

How Utilities Actually Think