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Private insurance companies that administer the National Flood Insurance Program made an estimated $240 million to $406 million in profit annually over the past four years, even as many residents affected by Superstorm Sandy lost their homes.

Monsanto Co. yesterday rejected a $62 billion takeover bid from Bayer AG, saying it was "incomplete and financially inadequate."

Texas' two largest university systems will work together to try to win a federal contract to run the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, officials said.

The longtime regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service's operations in broad swaths of the West will retire in August, agency leaders said yesterday.

An increasing number of people are buying instead of leasing solar panels, worrying the big three solar installers.

A former coal executive found dead in a West Virginia cemetery earlier this week is remembered as a complicated figure whose sudden end shocked his former colleagues and industry associates.

Two new studies make the case that rooftop solar can be a net benefit to ratepayers, despite concerns from some utilities that say it hurts their business model.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would be "highly unlikely" to be able to renegotiate last year's Paris climate agreement, the United Nations' top climate change official said.

Exxon Mobil Corp. worked to halt a congressional lecture series on climate change shortly after President George W. Bush took office in 2001, a former government official said.

Federal prosecutors say they are fearful that supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy could use names and information to target and intimidate court officials in a criminal case stemming from an armed standoff in 2014 near Bundy's land.

A coalition of states is telling the Supreme Court that U.S. EPA is making flawed legal arguments about its rule to slash power plants' mercury emissions.

A federal district judge in Fargo, N.D., said yesterday he would halt proceedings in his court on the Obama administration's contentious Clean Water Rule pending an outcome in a higher court.

The U.S. East Coast could be hit with tropical storm systems as the Atlantic hurricane season begins next week.

Climate change and rising sea levels could pose a threat to Florida's Everglades as the ocean spills over into the wetlands.

Fishermen and seafood suppliers from several countries agreed to a deal that will stop expansion into ecologically significant Arctic waters.

A coalition of environmental groups yesterday petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to revise and strengthen protections for the rare red wolf, saying illegal shootings and poor federal oversight have placed the species in imminent danger of extinction.

Actress Melissa Gilbert (D) abruptly ended her challenge yesterday to Rep. Mike Bishop in Michigan's 8th District, all but ensuring the freshman Republican will win re-election.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today urged Congress to pass mandatory labeling for food derived from genetically modified crops, amid little sign that lawmakers are about to strike a deal.

The Bureau of Land Management should scrap its new rule governing how it revises land-use plans because it would weaken the influence of states and counties over critical federal decisions, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski said.

A contentious plan to halt construction of South Carolina's over-budget and behind-schedule mixed oxide (MOX) fuel facility won't be among amendments the House will consider today for its energy and water spending bill.

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