Matt Zeitlin

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Monday Was a Bad Day to Depend on Fossil Fuels Topsy turvy oil prices aren’t great for the U.S.

high, unstable oil prices, still not great for the U.S. even as we produce and sell more of the stuff than ever heatmap.news/energy/oil-p...

The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis - Kindle edition by Sifferlin, Alexandra. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis.

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Opinion | They Feel Bugs Inside Them. Doctors Don’t Know Why.

How a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station researcher became a first responder to Americans convinced they're infested with bugs www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

And even Pakistan is unlikely to wean itself from fossil fuels anytime soon. There's no practical way to, say, run a fertilizer plant there with cheap rooftop solar panels heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

While it's easy to point to graphs of solar capacity and prices and make the case for embracing renewables and electrification, in the short run, poorer countries that import Qatari LNG are likely to see their coal consumption rise heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

The US, which may see some higher prices, but likely no real shortfalls, has a diverse domestic generation and oil and gas sector due in part to government policies to foster new energy sources following the 70s oil shocks heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

And Ethiopia and Nepal are rapidly transitioning to electric vehicles due to concerns about import dependence and air quality heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

Exhibit A for crash solar adoption is Pakistan, which had a decaying grid and had to scrap subsidies heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

What do you do when your oil and lng isn't as secure as you thought? in the short run, you probably burn more coal, but there are countries that were heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels that have embraced solar and electrification

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And the US, which may see some higher prices, but likely no real shortfalls, has a diverse domestic generation and oil and gas sector due in part to government policies to foster new energy sources following the 70s oil shocks heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

And Ethiopia and Nepal are rapidly transitioning to electric vehicles due to concerns about import dependence and air quality heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

exhibit a for crash solar adoption is Pakistan, which had a decaying grid and had to scrap subsidies. heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

Oil Is Surging. Clean Energy Stocks Are Down Anyway. Here are three reasons why.

Oil prices are up, so clean energy stocks must be celebrating, right?

Wrong.

Here’s @zeitlin.bsky.social with 3 reasons why:

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Oil Is Surging. Clean Energy Stocks Are Down Anyway. The attacks on Iran have not redounded to renewables’ benefit. Here are three reasons why.

The US-Iran war has revealed the fragility of the global fossil-fuel complex. Oil and LNG prices are up, and Americans are already paying more at the pump.

Yet clean energy firms have mostly lost ground since the bombing began, @zeitlin.bsky.social writes. Here’s why: heatmap.news/energy/why-i...

Excited to announce a new report, by the Center for Building in North America and @cmiflin.bsky.social's Center for Zero Waste Design – on the high cost of waste handling in New York City! Article in Vital City below on it, full report here: centerforzerowastedesign.org/all/advocacy...

War With Iran Isn’t Just an Oil Story The U.S.-Israeli campaign will have, if anything, bigger implications for liquified natural gas.

Good luck rebalancing and reorienting away from the U.S. because you're worried about Trump when the world's number two LNG exporter is heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

How Trump’s War Could Destabilize the Global Energy Market It starts — but doesn’t end — with the Strait of Hormuz.

The energy market is on edge. Iran was exporting almost its entire daily oil production in the last few weeks, IRGC-linked news outlets say the Strait of Hormuz is "effectively closed," Saudi says the Eastern Province was attakced, the US hit Iranian naval assets heatmap.news/energy/trump...

Even Utility CEOs Are Talking About Electricity Affordability Now It’s either reassure investors now or reassure voters later.

Utilities are in a very funny situation right now: they're bragging to their investors about their high earnings while also saying that they're very concerned about affordability heatmap.news/energy/utili...

Data Center Support Plummets in Latest Heatmap Pro Poll The proportion of voters who strongly oppose development grew by nearly 50%.

new heatmap poll pro: support for data center construction is plummeting

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@bernstein.bsky.social reportermaxxes and journalismmogs, haters' cortisol spikes!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/s...

The Power Grid Just Passed Its Biggest Test in Years Rob and Jesse talk about the big Northeastern freeze.

Today on Shift Key: @jessedjenkins.com and I chat about why the power grid’s performance in winter, and *not* summer, is now its most important test — and we debrief how the Northeastern US grid just did during a relentlessly frigid few weeks. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

A New Bipartisan Geothermal Bill Is About to Heat Up the House Representatives Jake Auchincloss and Mark Amodei want to boost “superhot” exploration.

The hottest thing in Congress are bipartisan geothermal bills: Jake Auchincloss and Mark Amodei have a superhot rocks bill with milestone-based grants, workforce development, and permitting reform heatmap.news/politics/amo...

Democrats Should Embrace ‘Cleaner’ LNG, This Think Tank Says Third Way’s latest memo argues that climate politics must accept a harsh reality: natural gas isn’t going away anytime soon.

democrats may be willing to sideline some climate coals in pursuit of affordability, but can they actually say "i support oil and gas development"...Third Way is trying heatmap.news/energy/clean...

i guess it's all a matter of perspective. we're just past halfway through the 2020s, and the US is a much larger economy than Australia in the 2000s or Japan in the 1980s, so the scale of investment shown here is still quite large. the shale boom and 90s internet buildout were big deals!

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Scoop: New Bipartisan House Bill Would Keep President From Yanking Permits The FREEDOM Act aims to protect energy developments from changing political winds.

A bipartisan House group — including Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Don Bacon (R-NE) — have proposed bill text that curtails the president’s ability to yank permits from individual energy projects that have already been approved, @alexckaufman.bsky.social reports: heatmap.news/politics/fre...

The Radical Grid Idea Gaining Traction on the Right — and the Left Maybe utilities’ “natural monopoly” isn’t so natural after all.

everyone knows the grid is a natural monopoly, what the cato institute presupposes is...maybe it isn't? heatmap.news/energy/consu...

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