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Vox's coverage and updates on the latest energy news and policy, and its impact on your daily life.

How the fossil-fuel lobby weaponized Julia Child’s gas stove

By Rebecca Leber

The propane industry’s weird obsession with school buses, explained

By Rebecca Leber

Airlines say they’ve found a route to climate-friendly flying

By Umair Irfan

Why Biden’s multibillion-dollar bet on hydrogen energy is such a big deal

By Rebecca Leber

The US power grid quietly survived its most brutal summer yet

By Umair Irfan

Is the future of energy ... pouring water on hot rocks in the ground?

By Dylan Matthews

The oil industry’s cynical gamble on Arctic drilling

By Rebecca Leber

America’s Trumpiest court just put itself in charge of nuclear safety

By Ian Millhiser

Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

By Dylan Matthews

Why ultra-green Germany turned its back on nuclear energy

By Markham Heid

The nuclear industry’s big bet on going small

By Umair Irfan

The air we breathe was getting better. Then climate change hit.

By Rebecca Leber

4 winners and 1 loser in the EPA’s historic move to limit power plant pollution

By Rebecca Leber

The EPA’s long-delayed new rules for power plant pollution, explained

By Rebecca Leber

A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

By Rebecca Leber

The thread that ties the recent chemical spills together

By Rebecca Leber

Refrigerators have gotten really freaking good. Thanks, Jimmy Carter.

By Rebecca Leber

There’s something different about the new gas stove influencer

By Rebecca Leber

Oil company profits are at a record high. It won’t last.

By Rebecca Leber

Who gets to keep burning fossil fuels as the planet heats up?

By Umair Irfan

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future.

By Neel Dhanesha
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Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.

By Christina Thornell

Renewable energy, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff

Fight climate change. End fossilflation. Here’s how.

By Rebecca Leber

This is what we need to invent to fight climate change

By Umair Irfan

The long-shot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels

By Rebecca Leber

Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be

By Katherine Harmon Courage

The world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years

By Jariel Arvin

How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change

By Jariel Arvin

Norway’s trillion-dollar wealth fund sold the last of its investments in fossil fuel companies

By Jariel Arvin

Democrats have made a puzzling decision to drop their demand to end fossil fuel subsidies

By Umair Irfan

How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly

By David Roberts

Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on fossil fuels

By David Roberts

How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world

By Jillian Weinberger, Amy Drozdowska, and 1 more

California solves batteries’ embarrassing climate problem

By David Roberts

Why climate activists disrupted the Harvard-Yale football game

By Umair Irfan

The University of California system is ending its investment in fossil fuels

By Umair Irfan

Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready.

By David Roberts

Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion

By Umair Irfan

Forget cars. We need electric airplanes.

By Umair Irfan