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Energy & Environment

Vox's coverage of climate change, renewable energy, conservation, and other environmental issues

Otters are thriving in … Iowa?

My home state seemed far from a natural paradise. Then I found an otter.

By Benji Jones

The Supreme Court’s big EPA decision is a massive power grab by the justices

West Virginia v. EPA confirms that the GOP-controlled Supreme Court will veto any federal regulation it wants.

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s fleeting gift to the coal industry

By Rebecca Leber and Umair Irfan June 30

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling isn’t the only legal attack on the environment

By Umair Irfan and Neel Dhanesha June 30

The biggest myths about gas prices

By Rebecca Leber June 27

When you drive for work, $5 gas hurts

By Rani Molla June 23

This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life

By Benji Jones June 22

Biden distanced himself from Saudi Arabia — until gas prices got bad

By Jonathan Guyer June 21

The SEC did a sensible thing on climate change. A right-wing campaign is trying to kill it.

By Rebecca Leber June 21

How Yellowstone’s animals survive a catastrophic flood

By Benji Jones June 17

What gas prices do — and don’t — tell us about the economy

By Rebecca Leber June 17

A teensy, tiny glimmer of hope for polar bears

By Benji Jones June 16

The federal government started New Mexico’s largest wildfire. It had good intentions.

By Neel Dhanesha June 15

Why investors suddenly care about saving the environment

By Benji Jones June 15

Climate change is all about power. You have more than you think.

By Rebecca Leber June 9

Why Joe Biden is invoking a war power to build heat pumps and solar panels

By Neel Dhanesha June 8

Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world

By Kelsey Piper June 8

The simple, impactful way to make cars cleaner

By Umair Irfan June 2

The pollution from Russia’s war will poison Ukraine for decades

By Benji Jones June 2

The Texas grid is designed to fail

By Neel Dhanesha May 29

Here’s where dangerous ticks are spreading across the US — and what to do about them

By Benji Jones May 27

The Supreme Court just okayed Biden’s “social cost of carbon.” It’s still way too low.

By Sigal Samuel May 27

WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s new crypto project sounds like a scam within a scam

By Neel Dhanesha May 26

Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science?

By Joanna Thompson May 24

The eel-shaped parasite that threatens a $7 billion economy in the Great Lakes

By Benji Jones May 24

An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough

By Rebecca Leber May 23

The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators

By Siobhan McDonough May 21

The air conditioning paradox

By Umair Irfan May 18

What’s killing the world’s biggest fish?

By Benji Jones May 12

The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained

By Umair Irfan May 11

The solution to “differential demography” is more migration

By Bryan Walsh May 9

This is what we need to invent to fight climate change

By Umair Irfan May 6

The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of

By Neel Dhanesha May 6

These batteries work from home

By Rebecca Heilweil May 5

A better solution to America’s big hurricane problem

By Benji Jones May 4

America is trying to fix the chip shortage one factory at a time

By Rebecca Heilweil May 2

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

By Rebecca Leber April 29

Time is running out for Biden’s EPA to act on climate

By Rebecca Leber April 28

Where forests disappeared last year, in one chart

By Benji Jones April 28

One-fifth of all crocodiles, snakes, and other reptiles are threatened with extinction

By Benji Jones April 27

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fracturing the delicate peace in the Arctic

By Umair Irfan April 25

The difference you make when you eat less meat

By Kenny Torrella April 22