Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer
I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap, a climate and energy news site. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast. Contributing NYT Opinion writer.
NEW SHIFT KEY: Why you can’t talk about food without talking about LAND We chat with the great @MikeGrunwald about his new book “We Are Eating the Earth,” about why food generates such bad climate policy, and about why land’s scarcity is central to the food-climate problem:
9pt font with no margins and the OBBBA cuts still don’t fit in the preview smh
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has transformed US clean energy policy, gutting EV & solar/wind incentives. But it’s weirder than a straight repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act. Today at @heatmap_news, we have a new summary of the past 20 years of tax credits — in one table
I know this doesn't matter but a lady in ohio solicited doodles from celebrities to auction for charity and in 2004 she said that trump was always literally the first to send in his drawings
Stop booing me! I’m right
Nobody: Literally, nobody: Rob, for some reason:
the decline of third places is almost entirely fake in explaining why people hang out less. it's the phone and always available video entertainment. one thing this does is pulverize people with media telling them that there are structural causes for everything bad in their life
Wrong, wrong; it was harder to get a job in journalism in 2010 than in 1980; what happened was the ruination of information bundlers loyal to one geographic market and their partial replacement by “merchant” publishers operating in an international algo-mediated content market
In retrospect one of the things that allowed wokeness to become so powerful, at its peak, was the decline of journalism as an industry. The kind of people who undertook its institutional capture in 2010 mostly couldn't have gotten hired in 1980.
Prospect Park just chock full and shimmering with fireflies right now. More than I’ve seen in an urban park before, although I don’t have much experience with NYC parks. Worth getting out in the evening this week if you live nearby.
At some point, “the rented podcast studio” replaced “beige room with an 8' ceiling” as the default space where online content occurs.
EVs are poised to outsell gas-guzzlers in China for the first time this year, driven by cheap models, faster charging and the growing popularity of plug-in hybrids bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
The idea that Senate would soften IRA cuts from House bill turned out to be total baloney. The text rolls back credits for solar and wind at top speed while *adding* new taxes. There's also a credit for "metallurgical coal."
Stunningly, the new Senate budget bill contains a NEW tax on wind & solar power projects. Avoiding the tax depends on positive demonstration that projects dont violate material assistance rules that is next to impossible to demonstrate. Based on my calcs, could raise taxes on…
At a moment of rapid demand growth and a growing electricity affordability crisis, the Republican's One Big Horrible Bill will RAISE TAXES on the only new sources of electricity we are able to rapidly add to the US grid in four different ways.
Q: How could Republicans wind up politically “owning” a surge in electricity rates, even though states regulate utilities? A:
The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.