Thune, elected Senate majority leader Wednesday by Republicans, has long championed wind energy, which provides about 55% of electricity in his home state of South Dakota. His powerful new role puts ...

Ford Motor Co. agreed to a $165 million civil penalty to settle allegations the company failed to recall cars with defective rearview cameras in a timely manner, the second largest fine ever levied by ...

An anti-abortion center will ask a federal appeals court to overturn a trial judge’s refusal to end the state attorney general’s inquiry into whether it engaged in conduct that violates state consumer ...

Former Whole Foods Market Inc. employees challenging the fees associated with the grocer’s $1.9 billion retirement plan asked ...

Two Missouri tax attorneys and an insurance agent were sentenced to a combined 16 years in prison for their roles in operating a tax shelter that the federal government says defrauded the IRS of more ...

Oracle investors voted against a proposal asking the computer software company to examine the impact greenhouse gas emissions ...

A former Franciscan Alliance Inc. nurse agreed to drop her suit alleging the health care company discriminated and retaliated ...

An Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc. employee lost her lawsuit challenging how the private aviation school manages its $500 million retirement plan, after a Florida federal judge said the case ...

Matt Gaetz’s selection for attorney general has veterans of the first Trump Justice Department reconsidering whether to ...

US regulators led by the Federal Reserve have refused to endorse a plan that would have seen the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision push lenders to disclose their climate risk, according to people ...

Developed nations have been loath to pitch in more than $100 billion a year in total to slow emissions and help developing nations prepare for the consequences.

The independent board of Ben & Jerry’s has accused its parent company, Unilever Plc, of silencing it on advocating for Palestinian rights, in contravention of an agreement between the two.