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The federal government spent nearly $40 billion to insure crops in 13 states along the Mississippi River over two decades, even as the changing climate makes farming a riskier proposition in many areas, a new report shows.

A legislative push is underway to establish a state human rights office in Rochester.

Chevron USA announced an agreement yesterday to jointly develop an offshore carbon capture and storage hub off the coast of Texas.

Rivian Automotive Inc. and the state of Georgia muscled past local opposition and this week secured $1.5 billion in public funding that will allow a big electric vehicle factory to rise east of Atlanta.

Gordon Lightfoot once sang that the frigid waters of Lake Superior never give up her dead, but he might consider penning a new ballad for the receding waters of Lake Mead: It could soon spill decades of secrets.

A global water crisis is putting billions of dollars' worth of assets in the mining, oil and gas, and utility sectors at risk as climate change accelerates.

A hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning.

Rising seas threaten to consume the coastal areas of major metropolises around the world. Now those risks are compounded by an accelerating danger: Most of those cities are also sinking.

Big Oil made billions in the first three months of this year, as the Russia-Ukraine war pushed oil and gas prices to their highest level in a decade and prompted some Democrats to accuse the industry of price-gouging during a crisis.

Amazon, Meta and Alphabet are urging their investors to oppose resolutions that would require more lobbying disclosures and climate action.