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Agriculture giant Monsanto Co. said it would rescind its requests to grow more genetically modified crops in the European Union as a result of lack of market prospects.

The owner of two crippled nuclear reactors in California says a Japanese company is fully to blame for manufacturing and installing flawed equipment that forced the plant's closure.

The Air Force is considering leasing land to private companies for offshore oil and gas extraction off the coast of central California, officials said yesterday.

The Superior Court of Arizona has ruled in favor of the Sierra Club in a move that blocks plans for a trash-burning power plant west of Phoenix.

Chevron Corp. can subpoena email logs, computer usage data and personal information connected with a lawsuit filed by Ecuador against the company, a federal judge ruled.

JPMorgan Chase is trying to avoid a showdown with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over allegations that it manipulated the energy market.

Some residents of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., the setting of the 1975 film "Jaws," want more protections for sharks.

Officials are looking into whether work by Mexico's national oil company may be related to the deaths of at least 250 rays.

The Iliamna Village Council president said she did not evaluate a report the council submitted to U.S. EPA in support of an assessment that found potentially negative impacts of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region.

Members of the Kennedy family violated federal law when they freed a sea turtle entangled in a buoy line, officials said.

A federal court has fined a Florida man more than $2 million for illegally altering wetlands, the largest criminal fine for a wetlands violation in the state's history.

The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed habitat protections yesterday for loggerhead sea turtles in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

The Sierra Club today endorsed Rep. Gary Peters in Michigan's open-seat Senate race, announcing it will back the Democrat's bid to succeed retiring Sen. Carl Levin (D).

A state chapter of North America's largest motor club is accusing the oil and gas industry's largest trade group of misrepresenting its position on ethanol in a new ad campaign seeking repeal of the renewable fuel standard.

Conservation groups are urging Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today to put the brakes on coal lease sales.

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 21-9 today to approve a fiscal 2014 spending bill for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that boosts funding for weather forecasting, storm warnings and fisheries management.

The federal government would "very likely" default on its rent to private-sector landlords under a House appropriations bill, according to the head of the General Services Administration.

The Senate voted 54-46 along party lines today to confirm the nomination of Thomas Perez to lead the Department of Labor and is scheduled to vote this afternoon on Gina McCarthy to lead U.S. EPA.

Republican amendments on the Keystone XL pipeline, U.S. EPA regulations and President Obama's climate plan will be enough to keep a long-awaited bipartisan energy efficiency bill from the floor, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) predicted this morning.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee clashed today over the science of man-made climate change in the panel's first hearing on the issue this Congress. The member statements seemed scripted to Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe. "I think it's a lot of theater," Inhofe said. "But it's going to be fun, and it will be good to start talking about it again."

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