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A Toronto company claims it has developed a new formula for making organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, that would allow for mass production of the fixtures.

Regulators are shutting down 12 wastewater injection wells in California's Central Valley "out of an abundance of caution for public health" amid groundwater contamination concerns.

The Supreme Court today ruled that a railroad carrier may challenge an Alabama state tax on diesel use because the state does not also require trucking and other carriers to pay it.

An expansion of the Suez Canal could make it easier for invasive species to infiltrate the Mediterranean Sea, according to scientists.

Kenya yesterday made good on its promise to destroy its entire ivory stockpile this year with the incineration of 15 metric tons (16.5 tons) of ivory.

An explosion of mountain pine beetle populations throughout the western United States and Canada over the past decade has made the insect a central point of focus for regional foresters and a source of anxiety for local communities. But a new study from Oregon State University suggests that a slower-moving species, the western spruce budworm, may be the greater threat to the region's forests over time.

Hurricanes helped lionfish expand their range, providing "express lanes on a superhighway" for an invasive species that has quickly spread from the Gulf of Mexico to the Bahamas, according to a new study.

New Mexico state lawmakers moved last night to stake out greater control over a proposed diversion of the Gila River, approving a bill to establish legislative oversight of a project that could cost as much as $1 billion.

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee today easily passed five bills to boost the effectiveness and economic impact of federal research, but Democrats urged Republicans to reauthorize a comprehensive bill on science and education this year instead of taking a piecemeal approach.

House members today began tackling the difficult question of how to upgrade the country's outdated sprawling electric grid while ensuring an entrenched utility industry can compete with less centralized technology like rooftop solar panels.

Senate Republicans today used a hearing on U.S. EPA's fiscal 2016 budget to blast the Obama administration's priorities in the area of climate change.

The Senate's top lawmaker in charge of funding the Interior Department and U.S. EPA this morning promised that her panel this year will mark up a spending bill for the first time in at least half a decade, a pledge that she acknowledged will force debate over "thorny" policy issues involving those agencies.

The Senate is speeding up the process of trying to override President Obama's veto of legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Aurora Energy Services LLC and the Alaska Railroad Corp. are asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling faulting both companies for dumping coal debris into Resurrection Bay in the southern part of Alaska.

House watchdogs are intensifying their efforts to oust the embattled Chemical Safety Board chairman.

The Senate's top Republican waded into state regulatory policy today, urging state officials in an newspaper op-ed to not let themselves be "bullied" into complying with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Kentucky regulators say they've figured out how they might write an implementation plan for the U.S. EPA Clean Power Plan without violating a state law that severely limits their options.

How will the evolution of the utility industry converge with Clean Power Plan targets and natural gas policy? During today's OnPoint, former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar discusses the challenges facing U.S. EPA as it crafts its final Clean Power Plan rule and the impact the plan could have on grid reliability. Salazar, now a partner at WilmerHale, also weighs in on expanding oil and gas development in the United States and the Interior Department's proposed leasing expansions along the Atlantic Coast and in the Arctic.