Vacuum-cleaner manufacturer Dyson will invest $1.3 billion to develop a “radically different” electric car. 

A week after Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico, the island still has no grid power, 42 percent of it lacks potable water, the agriculture sector is destroyed, and thousands of containers of desperately needed aid are languishing on San Juan’s docks. 

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, who already has an around-the-clock security detail, orders a $25,000 soundproof phone booth for his office. 

Pruitt threatens to cut off EPA funding for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, which attempts to force polluters to pay for contaminated waste sites under the EPA’s Superfund program.

Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier calves a 100-square-mile iceberg. The glacier, which holds water equivalent to a 1.7-foot rise in global sea level, is now unstable and in retreat. 

The state of Washington denies an environmental permit for a huge coal terminal at the Port of Longview, likely dooming the project.

In a speech to an oil-industry audience, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says that one-third of his department’s employees—the vast majority of whom are nonpolitical civil servants—are not loyal to President Donald Trump and himself.

Three-quarters of counties in the contiguous United States are now warm enough to support disease-bearing mosquitoes. 

Canada produces more clean energy than it knows what to do with. 

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. International Trade Commission rules in favor of Georgia-based solar manufacturer Suniva, finding that imports of cheap solar panels from China damage the domestic solar industry. The decision may result in tariffs on Chinese panels, which would increase prices for solar energy and likely lead to layoffs in the booming solar sector.

Los Angeles is losing its signature palm trees to a fatal fungus and the South American palm weevil. 

Four University of Vermont undergraduates identify a new species of spider in Cuba and name it Spintharus berniesandersi, after Vermont’s Independent senator.