Energy and Environment

Both have gotten caught up in fights over plastic packaging. When Costco recently tried to trim its plastic use by selling rotisserie chickens in bags, some shoppers disapproved.

A new analysis shows increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes could cause more devastating interruptions to the power grid.

An election over the future of a United Nations-affiliated organization could determine whether the Pacific Ocean floor will soon be mined for metals used in electric vehicles.

Five bulls from the area around a Kenyan wildlife reserve have been shot and killed in Tanzania in recent months. The countries have very different conservation strategies.

Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.

A foundational 1984 decision had required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.

Half of the water flowing through regional river basins starts in so-called ephemeral streams. Last year, the Supreme Court curtailed federal protections for these waterways.

VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.

As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.

In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week.