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How the Permitting Reform Bill’s Best Stuff Works
How the Permitting Reform Bill’s Best Stuff Works
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- How the Permitting Reform Bill’s Best Stuff Works · 1 Std. 13 Min. · Folge 158Climate and environmental advocates are sharply divided over the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform proposal. But what most people agree is that the bill’s changes to…
- The Weird State-Level Races That Matter for Climate Change · 43 Min. · Folge 157Every midterm, the focus is on Congress — and for good reason. But in two weeks, Americans will vote on a number of state races that will matter immensely to the energy system…
- Should Climate Activists Keep Fighting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure? · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Folge 156No researcher has been more cited in lawsuits against fossil fuel infrastructure than Peter Erickson. As an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Peter…
- The Tesla Alum Trying to Turn GM Into an American Battery Juggernaut · 51 Min. · Folge 155There are two big trends in the American battery sector at the moment. The first is that the electric vehicle market is deteriorating. GM, for instance, sold just 25,000 EVs in…
- Governor Mikie Sherrill on Electricity Prices, Nuclear Power, and Building in New Jersey · 22 Min. · Folge 154Governor Mikie Sherrill is a former Navy pilot, federal prosecutor, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was elected New Jersey's governor in November 2025 in a…
- Al Gore on AI, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and the Biggest Surprises of the Past 20 Years · 30 Min. · Folge 153Former Vice President Al Gore needs no introduction. He is, in a way, the original climate influencer. His film An Inconvenient Truth gave rise to a new wave of climate activism…
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Trump’s Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda · 31 Min. · Folge 152Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has blocked renewable energy development and attacked climate change policy, prioritized fossil fuels and encouraged…
- What Does The Nuclear Company Do? · 54 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 69In the past few years, something surprising has happened in American energy policy: States and utilities have started trying to build new nuclear plants. A new kind of company —…
- Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part · 35 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 68America has some of the world’s best data about its own internal energy, industrial economy, and carbon emissions. That’s thanks to a federal agency called the U.S. Energy…
- Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt? · 48 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 67As we catch up from summer vacation, we’re bringing you a favorite from the Shift Key archive. We’ll be back in your feed with more fresh episodes starting next week. What is the…
- How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout · 51 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 66The United States is staring down a natural gas buildout of gigantic proportions. Amazon wants to build what would be the country’s largest power plant in Texas — and run it…
- Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 65Two years ago, Donald Trump made an outlandish campaign promise: He would cut Americans’ power bills in half. It was a ridiculous, impossible pledge — but even so, the…
- Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill. · 42 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 64California now has the most expensive electricity in the continental United States. It also has expensive housing … and an increasingly broken home insurance market. Are the…
- Why This El Niño Looks Like a Monster · 47 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 63Every few years, the Pacific Ocean’s surface waters become especially warm near the equator, a climatic phenomenon known as El Niño. El Niño is a normal part of the climate…
- The Big — But Fixable! — Problems in America’s R&D Ecosystem · 58 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 62At this point, when you hear “venture capitalist,” you probably think of … software. Or artificial intelligence. Or cryptocurrency. The Engine Ventures, which spun out of MIT a…
- Permitting Reform, Data Centers, and More With Senator Heinrich and Secretary Granholm · 33 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 61The Democratic Party’s climate and energy policy is at a difficult moment. Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration has attacked solar and wind energy, started an…
- What a Permitting Reform Deal Could Look Like · 1 Std. 18 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 60There’s really one one good thing that could happen this year in Congress for clean energy: permitting reform. If lawmakers reached a bipartisan deal on the country’s permitting…
- What Barbecue Sauce Has in Common With Carbon Removal · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 59Charm Industrial is a climate tech company that takes biomass and converts it into a heavy, carbon-rich oil that can be injected underground, transmuting and storing the…
- The Company That’s Raised $60 Million to Geoengineer the Planet · 1 Std. 1 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 58For more than 30 years, a heterodox group of scientists have proposed injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight away from Earth, thereby cooling the…
- The New Paper Arguing Biden’s Power Sector Emissions Cuts Are Largely Intact — Even Under Trump · 50 Min. · Staffel 3 Folge 57Wait, is the climate policy landscape … in better shape than it looks? Just over a year ago, President Trump passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It repealed many of the Biden…
