diff --git a/library/std/src/env.rs b/library/std/src/env.rs
index 51e5c60ed294e..74394694d43ca 100644
--- a/library/std/src/env.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/env.rs
@@ -236,11 +236,12 @@ fn _var(key: &OsStr) -> Result<String, VarError> {
 }
 
 /// Fetches the environment variable `key` from the current process, returning
-/// [`None`] if the environment variable isn't set. It may return `None` also
-/// if the environment variable's name contains
+/// [`None`] if the variable isn't set or if there is another error.
+///
+/// It may return `None` if the environment variable's name contains
 /// the equal sign character (`=`) or the NUL character.
 ///
-/// Note that the method will not check if the environment variable
+/// Note that this function will not check if the environment variable
 /// is valid Unicode. If you want to have an error on invalid UTF-8,
 /// use the [`var`] function instead.
 ///