Shift Key with Robinson Meyer

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Every week, Heatmap News Executive Editor Robinson Meyer and Princeton University Professor and energy systems expert Jesse Jenkins 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 Jenkins unpack the most important issues of the week and how the impacts of climate change and efforts to address it are transforming our economy, polit...

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Episodes (126)

Trump’s Move to Kill the Clean Air Act’s Climate Authority, Forever

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Aug 6, 20251:09:25pending

Why We’re Worried About Electricity Prices

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Jul 30, 20251:06:03pending

How Sun and Wind Become Electricity

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Jul 23, 202559:40pending

Climate Policy in America: Where We Go From Here

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Jul 16, 20251:10:47pending

How Does a Power Plant Work?

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Jul 9, 202553:04pending

What Is a Watt?

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Jul 2, 202538:41pending

If You Care About Food, You Have to Care About Land

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Jun 25, 20251:07:18pending

It’s Easiest to Electrify This Type of Truck

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Jun 18, 20251:03:09pending

A New Grand Theory of Why Decarbonization Is So Hard

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Jun 11, 20251:15:46pending

The Supreme Court’s Double-Edged Change to Permitting Law

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Jun 4, 202556:19pending

Shift Key Classic: The World Will Miss 1.5C. What Comes Next?

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May 28, 202542:52pending

How the GOP Megabill Would Reshape the U.S. Energy Economy

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May 21, 20251:07:43pending

The Fight Over the Inflation Reduction Act Has Arrived

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May 13, 20251:03:19pending

Spain’s Blackout and the Miracle of the Modern Power Grid

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May 7, 20251:08:56pending

How Texas Could Destroy Its Electricity Market

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Apr 30, 202559:46pending

How BYD Got So Big

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Apr 23, 20251:00:02pending

What Happens to Global Decarbonization in a Trade War?

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Apr 16, 202548:30pending

How China’s Industrial Policy Really Works

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Apr 9, 20251:05:33pending

The Least-Noticed Climate Scandal of the Trump Administration

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Apr 2, 202549:19pending

What’s Really Holding Back New Data Centers

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Mar 26, 20251:05:15pending

How to Crash America’s Manufacturing Renaissance

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Mar 19, 202548:32pending

How Trump Has All But Halted Offshore Wind

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Mar 12, 202545:54pending

Why Solar Might Be Better Off Than You Think

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Mar 5, 202547:46pending

The Early Lessons of Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’

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Feb 26, 202542:55pending

How to Talk to Your Friendly Neighborhood Public Utility Regulator

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Feb 19, 20251:08:55pending

What Senator Brian Schatz Wants Climate Advocates to Know

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Feb 12, 20251:02:37pending

The U.S. Auto Industry Wasn’t Built for Tariffs

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Feb 5, 20251:02:21pending

The Trump Policy That Would Be Really Bad for Oil Companies

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Jan 29, 202549:45pending

How Wildfires Destroyed California’s Insurance Market

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Jan 22, 20251:11:52pending

A Beginner’s Guide to the Hydrogen Economy

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Jan 15, 20251:11:37pending

Have China’s Emissions Already Peaked?

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Jan 8, 20251:03:07pending

Answering Your Questions on AI and Energy, the Economics of Solar, the GND’s Leg...

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Jan 1, 202558:04pending

So, What Does AI Really Mean for Decarbonization?

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Dec 24, 202449:19pending

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on What Comes After Biden’s Climate Agenda

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Dec 18, 20241:02:39pending

Shift Key Classic: How China Created an EV Juggernaut

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Dec 11, 202451:10pending

How Democrats Are Trying to Trump-proof Their Big Climate Law

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Dec 4, 20241:03:40pending

How Trump Could Dent EVs in America

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Nov 27, 20241:05:51pending

The World Will Miss 1.5C. What Comes Next?

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Nov 20, 202459:10pending

Trump, China, and Climate Change: What Happens Next?

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Nov 13, 20241:04:51pending

The Inflation Reduction Act Is About to Be Tested

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Nov 6, 202445:53pending

Climate-o-Rama: EVs, Oil, Trump, and More

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Oct 30, 202459:24pending

Are Democrats the Party of Nuclear Now?

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Oct 23, 20241:02:06pending

Talking Permitting Reform, Trade, and More With Biden’s Top Climate Advisor

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Oct 16, 20241:01:06pending

Want to Decarbonize Your Life? Here’s How.

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Oct 9, 20241:05:58pending

How Climate Change Shaped Hurricane Helene

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Oct 3, 202448:25pending

The Local Elections That Matter for Decarbonization

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Oct 2, 202451:10pending

The Hardest Working $27 Billion in the IRA

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Sep 25, 20241:11:34pending

Why Geothermal Is So Hot Right Now

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Sep 18, 20241:08:08pending

A Beginner’s Guide to the Interconnection Queue

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Sep 11, 20241:09:08pending

What 2024 Will Mean for Clean Energy — in Megatons

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Sep 4, 202453:24pending