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:

RT @ThirdWayEnergy: 9pt font with no margins and the OBBBA cuts still don’t fit in the preview smh.

Want to be clear: Heatmap is thrilled to share this table with our readers, but we didn’t put it together! We’re thrilled to debut it from Shane Londagin at Third Way, Avi Zevin from Roselle LLP, Luke Bassett, and the REPEAT Project. They did extraordinary work here summarizing.

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

RT @anniierau: I know this doesn't matter but a lady in ohio solicited doodles from celebrities to auction for charity and in 2004 she said….

Shenzhen of America

Stop booing me! I’m right.

I mean, could this primary source get any more definitive. New Jersey is America’s Shenzhen because Shenzhen was intentionally designed to resemble New Jersey. If anything, Shenzhen is China’s New Jersey

You are all replying “Rob” to me like I’m obviously wrong but you are going to be so upset when you see the next thing I post.

This is not conjecture; the Princeton-educated Chinese developer who built the first multilane highway from Hong Kong to Guangzhou (explicitly with the goal of spurring industrial development in South China) literally said “This is the Chinese version of the Jersey turnpike”

When you think about the long history of frontier companies and labs there — Menlo Park, Bell Labs, RCA, Sarnoff, and now Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Merck — and the fact it’s located next to *the* global hub of finance — then it becomes obvious that America’s Shenzhen is New Jersey.

RT @MattZeitlin: the decline of third places is almost entirely fake in explaining why people hang out less. it's the phone and always avai….

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.

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.

RT @business: EVs are poised to outsell gas-guzzlers in China for the first time this year, driven by cheap models, faster charging and the….

I’m back from vacation. Feeling lucky that I timed my trip for such a mundane and uneventful period for federal energy and climate policy.

RT @gbrew24: The idea that Senate would soften IRA cuts from House bill turned out to be total baloney. The text rolls back credits for so….

RT @JesseJenkins: Stunningly, the new Senate budget bill contains a NEW tax on wind & solar power projects. Avoiding the tax depends on pos….

Q: How could Republicans wind up politically “owning” a surge in electricity rates, even though states regulate utilities? . A:.