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Shift Key with Robinson Meyer

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

    September 25, 2026 · 31 min

    Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has blocked renewable energy development and attacked climate change policy, prioritized fossil fuels and encouraged nuclear energy, and started a war that led to a global oil and gas…

  • What Does The Nuclear Company Do?

    September 23, 2026 · 54 min

    In 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 — the nuclear developer — is now trying to handle those…

  • Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part

    September 16, 2026 · 35 min

    America 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 Information Administration, which painstakingly collects and…

  • Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?

    September 9, 2026 · 48 min

    As 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 difference between energy and power? How does the power grid…

  • How to Understand America’s Gigantic Natural Gas Buildout

    September 2, 2026 · 51 min

    The 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 entirely on natural gas. Not to be outdone, OpenAI is plotting an…

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

    August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Two 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 affordability problem didn’t need to get this bad. A new report, out…

  • Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.

    August 20, 2026 · 42 min

    California 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 three phenomena linked? They might be. Due to a peculiarity in…

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About the show

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.