Matt Zeitlin
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Matt Zeitlin
@zeitlin.bsky.social
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huge news: a key house committee just advanced a major bipartisan permitting deal that would block future presidents from rescinding permits for political reasons

good for anyone who wants to build renewables, bad for anyone who wants to block pipelines

via @heatmap.news
House Permitting Bill Would Block Trump From Pulling Permits
It was approved by the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday by a vote of 25 to 18.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
what if simply told utilites that they were going to make less money heatmap.news/energy/calif...
What If Utilities Just Made Less Money?
California energy companies are asking for permission to take in more revenue. Consumer advocates are having none of it.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New Jersey's rate freeze could happen the easy way or the hard way heatmap.news/energy/new-j...
How an Electricity Rate Freeze Could Actually Work
New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill made a rate freeze one of her signature campaign promises, but that’s easier said than done.
heatmap.news
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
not the carhartt x WiP, no one can say he doesn't represent (some of) his district
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We’re shoveling money to the coal industry while its plants keep on shutting down heatmap.news/energy/coal-...
Trump Wants to Prop Up Coal Plants. They Keep Breaking Down.
According to a new analysis shared exclusively with Heatmap, coal’s equipment-related outage rate is about twice as high as wind’s.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Coal is the least reliable energy source in the U.S., according to a new analysis by @envdefensefund.bsky.social shared exclusively with Heatmap.

Here's @zeitlin.bsky.social with more:

heatmap.news/energy/coal-...
Trump Wants to Prop Up Coal Plants. They Keep Breaking Down.
According to a new analysis shared exclusively with Heatmap, coal’s equipment-related outage rate is about twice as high as wind’s.
heatmap.news
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
we need a mulligan on The Alienist, by far the best book about this period and an unfortunately meh tv series
The foxy boxing scene from Death by Lightning makes me realize we need more shows that take place in late 19th Century New York City. It was an absolutely insane place. We just have The Knick, or maybe The Gilded Age if it got any good after the first few episodes IDK.
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
an unfunded IZ mandate didn't work? not only did it not work to increase affordably housing production, it almost killed it off entirely? wow
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.

Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
brooklyn bridge park is the best thing that happened to new york since...????
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The IEA has had to adjust its forecast of electricty use upwards because from last year becuase of artificial intelligence and air conditioning
heatmap.news/energy/iea-w...
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The @iea.org just released its latest World Energy Outlook projecting growing natural gas demand into the 2030s — "due mainly to changes in U.S. policies and lower gas prices."

Here's @zeitlin.bsky.social with more:

heatmap.news/energy/iea-w...
Data Centers and Natural Gas Are Bending the Climate Transition Curve, IEA Says
The group’s latest World Energy Outlook reflects the sharp swerve in U.S. policy over the past year.
heatmap.news
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
now that she's a big deal media executive surely we're going to get some fresh sun valley photos eventually. that's the point of sun valley after all — to provide file photos of media and tech bigshots
pov: there is an article about bari weiss going around on your timeline
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
who cares
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Battery have had an up-and-down year. But one startup, Quino Energy, thinks it can break through with an old idea: flow batteries.

Here's @kbrigham.bsky.social on what sets Quino apart and why it's deploying in India:

heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Quino Raises $10 Million to Build Flow Batteries in India
The company is betting its unique vanadium-free electrolyte will make it cost-competitive with lithium-ion.
heatmap.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great @jael.bsky.social story on the right-left pincer movement against data centers heatmap.news/energy/data-...
The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics
Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against AI development.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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always be testing your ads to find out that a relentless focus on cost of living can be effective for progressive candidates
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
great @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social piece on zohran: how the "proud ecosocialist" who said we needed to fight trump with renewables clammed up about climate change on the campaign trail heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s Muted Climate Politics
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
How Mikie Sherrill took New Jersey's high and rising electricity prices and turned it to her advantage heatmap.news/politics/mik...
How Mikie Sherrill Won New Jersey’s Electricity Election
The next governor of the Garden State turned a potential liability into an advantage.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
what if texas could build data centers the same way it builds wind, solar, and batteries (ie with permissive interconnection but accepting the risk of curtailment)

heatmap.news/energy/texas...
A New Plan for Texas to Treat Data Centers Like Solar Farms
Emerald AI’s Arushi Sharma Frank wants to apply “connect and manage” to AI development.
heatmap.news
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Falling down the rabbit hole of online estate sales and folks it is going great over here
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
dems have been having debates about "social issues" vs "economic issues" and how that interacts with class and education for my entire life, what i think is genuinely new is the prominence of climate change and the priortization gap on climate change between college+ dems and everyone else
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I talked to an ex FERC chair who helped stiffarm Rick Perry's efforts to get FERC to write the rules he wanted, but now Neil Chatterjee thinks Secretary Wright will have a far easier time of it heatmap.news/energy/chatt...
What an ‘Elegant’ Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Looks Like, According to Neil Chatterjee
The former FERC chair explains why Chris Wright is likely to succeed where Rick Perry failed.
heatmap.news
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM