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Trump Is Trying to Stand in the Way of Electric Cars. They’re Breezing Right Past Him.

While the president mocks low-emission vehicles, the rest of the country is busy paving the way for their big day.

Week 116: Trump to Let Pork Producers Police Themselves. What Could Go Wrong?

Plus, the president defies Congress on conservation and wants to force pipelines on states that don’t want them.

A Heat Wave in Australia Killed 23,000 Spectacled Flying Foxes

The die-off—which wiped out a third of the population of these large and endangered fruit bats—is not normal, but it may become so.

In “Hadestown,” the Coal-Fired Lights Are Bright on Broadway

Director Rachel Chavkin’s musical about climate change is an infectious, bluesy trip to the underworld—that finds hope in the darkest of places.

Oil Companies Are Trying to Rebrand Themselves on Social Media

It’s almost as if they don’t want you to know how much they love oil.

Week 114: Trump’s EPA Questions if Air Pollution Really Kills (It Does), and the Interior Department Sells Out Nearly 1,400 Endangered Species

Interior’s Bernhardt helped bury a damning pesticide report, the Clean Air Committee goes soft on soot, and Trump nominates a climate change denier to the Fed board.