Robinson Meyer
He is also a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. Rob was previously a visiting fellow in journalism at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He was a recipient of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ NEXT Award for Journalists Under 30 in 2021. Meyer was previously a technology and climate writer for The Atlantic.
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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AUL LOEB / AFP/ Getty The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War
Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a different risk has emerged.
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Jordan Gale / The New York Times / … Wait, Why Wasn’t There a Climate Backlash?
Joe Biden's energy balancing act really worked.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty America Just Shrugged Off Biden’s Big Climate Law
Democrats braced for a midterm backlash to the Inflation Reduction Act. It never came.
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Andrew Burton / Getty The Paris Agreement Is Working … For Now
The world’s much-maligned climate treaty has produced some stunning results.
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Patrick Pleul / DPA / AFP / Getty A Republican Congress Is Coming for Biden’s Climate Wins
If the looming GOP majority sabotages climate policy, its own voters will suffer. The party might do it anyway.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Climate Art Vandals Are Embarrassing
Aesthetics matter in politics. But not like … this.
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Franco Origlia / Getty China Accidentally Made Our Gas Much Cheaper
Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID lockdowns have been an unexpected gift to Joe Biden.
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GMC Frankenstein’s Hummer
The company's new electric pickup truck is an unwieldy mix between an ambulance and a race car.
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David McNew / Getty The Climate Economy Is About to Explode
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.
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Ricardo Arduengo / AFP / Getty Honestly? The Link Between Climate Change and Hurricanes Is Complicated.
Hurricane Ian shows some symptoms of global warming. But saying anything beyond that is folly.
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Sharaf Maksumov; Shutterstock; Lauren Justice / Bloomberg / … What Did Axios Do?
Don’t read the new book by the outlet’s co-founders. Experience it. Then buy six copies.
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Christian Charisius / picture-alliance / dpa / AP The Senate Just Quietly Passed a Major Climate Treaty
America is in the middle of a mini–golden Age of climate policy.
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Getty Manchin’s New Bill Could Lead to One Big Climate Win
Power lines are crucial to expanding renewables. America could finally—finally!—be about to build more of them.
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DigitalGlobe / Getty Think Twice About Working for a ‘Climate Villain’
You’re not off the hook for your company’s actions.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic A Very California Lesson on Just How Weird Electricity Is
The state’s record-smashing heat wave is a window into the future … and it’s okay.
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Sean Gallup / Getty It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial
The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.
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Al Drago / Getty ‘The Biggest Thing to Happen in International Climate Diplomacy in Decades’
The Inflation Reduction Act could change the world in at least five ways.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The EPA Just Quietly Got Stronger
The new climate bill isn’t quite “all carrots, no sticks.”
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Bloomberg / Getty; David McNew / Getty; U.S. … Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government
For America to decarbonize, it must reindustrialize.
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Win McNamee / Getty; The Atlantic Not Even a Single Republican Voted for the Climate Bill
The Inflation Reduction Act is unmistakably partisan. Can the GOP undo it?
