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Robinson Meyer

Robinson Meyer is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he covers technology.

Carlos Barria / Reuters

The Giant Trump Climate Order Is Here

What it does, what comes next
- Robinson Meyer
- 11:28 AM ET
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

What’s Next for the Keystone XL Pipeline

Activists plan an all-out resistance on multiple fronts.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 27, 2017
China Daily / Reuters

How Climate Change Covered China in Smog

Air quality in Beijing has a lot to do with snowstorms in Siberia.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 21, 2017
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

The EPA Needs Lots of Money to Gut Itself

Trump’s budget proposal would slash funding to the agency, which may run counter to his more ambitious goals.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 20, 2017
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

What Made Pruitt's Falsehood Go Viral?

Al Roker, Stephen Colbert, and the Weather Channel all rushed to correct this untruth. Why?
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 15, 2017
Carlo Allegri / Reuters

Trump’s Climate Agenda: Do Less, With Less

From the EPA to the White House, from the budget to the federal register, his administration is dismantling climate-change regulation and the science that supports it.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 13, 2017
Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Trump's EPA Chief Denies the Basic Science of Climate Change

He has no evidence. He’ll successfully mislead people anyway.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 9, 2017
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

'This Kind of Strike Is Really Something New'

L.A. Kauffman, a historian of radical protest in America, fits the “Day Without a Woman” into history.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 8, 2017
Andrew Winning / Reuters

A Visual Search Engine for the Entire Planet

Descartes Labs lets you point-and-hop between features in China and the United States.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 7, 2017
Mark Makela / Reuters

The Coming Clean-Air War Between Trump and California

The outcome will shape the planet’s climate for generations.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 6, 2017
Carolina Levis

The Amazon Rainforest Was Profoundly Changed by Ancient Humans

The region’s ecology is a product of 8,000 years of indigenous agriculture.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 2, 2017
China Stringer Network / Reuters

What’s Dangerous About an Early Spring

When one natural cycle falls out of sync with another, everyone pays the price.
- Robinson Meyer
- Mar 1, 2017
Reuters

Is It Okay to Enjoy the Warm Winters of Climate Change?

The weather is nice, but it reminds us of the problems to come.
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 23, 2017
J. Scott Applewhite / AP

The EPA’s Legal Nemesis Is Confirmed as Its New Leader

Here’s what happens now that Scott Pruitt has been approved by the Senate.
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 17, 2017
Steve Helber / AP

Congress and Trump Won't 'Terminate the EPA'

Instead, they’ll restrict the agency in far subtler ways.
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 16, 2017
Nick Oxford / Reuters

Trump's EPA Pick Is Poised to Slide Past a Lawsuit Into Office

The “leading advocate against the EPA” may soon run the agency.
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 15, 2017
Terray Sylvester / Reuters

Construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline Continues, for Now

Here’s where the complicated legal case stands
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 14, 2017
Lucas Jackson / Reuters

The Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline

Can religious freedom and Hobby Lobby block the black snake?
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 10, 2017
Reuters

The Republican Carbon Tax Is Republican, Say Republicans

There’s just one problem: other Republicans.
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 8, 2017
NASA

Google Remakes the Satellite Business, by Leaving It

A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year.
- Robinson Meyer
- Feb 7, 2017

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