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Shift Key with Robinson Meyer

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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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S3 · E68
Wednesday · 35 min
Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part
Rob talks with climate and data expert Hannah Ritchie about her new platform, U.S. Energy Data.
S3 · E67
September 9 · 47 min
Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?
Rob goes back to school with Princeton University’s Jesse Jenkins on the basics of energy and power.
S3 · E66
September 2 · 50 min
How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout
Rob talks with Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo about how the data center boom is changing our emissions trajectory.
S3 · E65
August 27 · 1 hr 3 min
Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
Rob talks with Amanda Levin, head of climate science and policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the future we’ve lost.
S3 · E64
August 20 · 41 min
Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.
Rob digs into a new paper with a radical new idea to fix California’s grid (and insurance system and housing market) with the Breakthrough Institute’s Lauren Teixeira.
S3 · E63
August 12 · 47 min
Why This El Niño Looks Like a Monster
Rob checks in on this season’s supercharged ocean temperatures with climate researcher Zeke Hausfather.
S3 · E62
August 6 · 57 min
The Big — But Fixable! — Problems in America’s R&D Ecosystem
Rob talks “tough tech” with Engine Ventures’ Katie Rae.
S3 · E61
August 3 · 33 min
Permitting Reform, Data Centers, and More With Senator Heinrich and Secretary Granholm
Rob talks with Senator Heinrich and former Energy Secretary Granholm about fuel prices, the state of permitting discussions, AI data centers, and more.
S3 · E60
July 29 · 1 hr 18 min
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.
S3 · E59
July 24 · 1 hr 3 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.
S3 · E58
July 15 · 1 hr 1 min
The Company That’s Raised $60 Million to Geoengineer the Planet
Rob sits down for a conversation with Stardust Solutions CEO Yanai Yedvab.
S3 · E57
July 6 · 49 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.
S3 · E56
June 30 · 54 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.
S3 · E55
June 24 · 55 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.
S3 · E54
June 17 · 32 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.
S3 · E53
June 11 · 36 min
The Other, Other Big Race in Georgia This Year
Rob talks with Georgia Public Service Commissioner-slash-candidate Peter Hubbard.
S3 · E52
June 2 · 31 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.
S3 · E51
May 26 · 48 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.
S3 · E50
May 22 · 49 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.
S3 · E49
May 15 · 47 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.

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