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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 158 posts collected by Sputnik

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“I think there's a story of this bill, which is basically Democrats going, wait, I hate permitting laws. And Republicans going, wait, I hate utilities. And this bill basically being the product of those two realizations.” — Robinson Meyer, Heatmap News
Robinson Meyer · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The way utilities make decisions, the most important thing to them, the most valuable commodity to them by far, has nothing to do with like, is it solar or gas or wind or coal? It's their monopolies. That is the crown jewel of how a utility makes money… So it's like everything in service of the monopoly.” — David Pomerantz, Heatmap News
David Pomerantz · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It turned out that the overall transfer of money from the world's consumers to the world's incumbent fossil fuel producers was greater than the amount of money that was denied that company that you no longer let develop their assets… They are actually on net, winning out when you limit supply in many cases. And of course, they know this, right? That's why they have OPEC and OPEC Plus to try to manage to limit supply themselves.” — Peter Erickson, Heatmap News
Peter Erickson · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“In China, it's a byproduct of titanium manufacturing. And so you get this product for almost free in China. And it's just very difficult for anywhere else in the world to compete against free.” — Kurt Kelty, Heatmap News
Kurt Kelty · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The private sector making excuses about the regulator is just unconscionable. We have the safest nuclear in the world. No one in this country has ever been negatively impacted by nuclear power. Three Mile Island is our biggest incident, where no casualties. The technology failed exactly the way it should.” — Jonathan Webb, Heatmap News
Jonathan Webb · 23 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Heatmap News is hosted by Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    How the Permitting Reform Bill’s Best Stuff Works

    With David Pomerantz

  2. 21 Oct 2026

    The Weird State-Level Races That Matter for Climate Change

    With Caroline Spears

  3. 16 Oct 2026

    Should Climate Activists Keep Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure?

    With Peter Erickson

  4. 7 Oct 2026

    The Tesla Alum Trying to Turn GM Into an American Battery Juggernaut

    With Kurt Kelty

  5. 2 Oct 2026

    Governor Mikie Sherrill on Electricity Prices, Nuclear Power, and Building in New Jersey

    With Mikie Sherrill

  6. 30 Sep 2026

    Al Gore on AI, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and the Biggest Surprises of the Past 20 Years

    With Al Gore

  7. 25 Sep 2026

    Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Trump’s Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda

    With Chris Wright

  8. 23 Sep 2026

    What Does The Nuclear Company Do?

    With Jonathan Webb

  9. 16 Sep 2026

    Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part

    With Hannah Ritchie

  10. 9 Sep 2026

    Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?

  11. 2 Sep 2026

    How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout

    With Emily Pontecorvo and Sayed Medini

  12. 27 Aug 2026

    Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought

    With Sayed Medini and Amanda Levin

Guests

Emily Pontecorvo (7 episodes), Matthew Zeitlin (6 episodes), Jillian Goodman (5 episodes), Rory Johnston (4 episodes), Brian Deese (3 episodes), Jody Freeman (3 episodes), Lauri Myllyvirta (3 episodes), Ilaria Mazzocco (3 episodes), Jennifer Granholm (3 episodes), Peter Freed (2 episodes), Claire Wayner (2 episodes), Kate Marvel (2 episodes), and 106 more.