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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says the federal Environmental Protection Agency is giving North Dakota more of a voice when it comes to protecting endangered species from exposure to pesticides. Goehring says the EPA has approved a plan that...

FARGO -- Environmental health officials in North Dakota and the Environmental Protection Agency will try to end in less than two months a longstanding feud over haze reduction. The crux of the disagreement is which technology to control emissions is the most effective and least costly...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency says Pennsylvania officials aren't doing what they should to help people whose wells have been found to have been contaminated since natural gas drilling began in their area. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson...

The dispute over haze rules between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the North Dakota Health Department often gets wrongly boiled down to a conflict between a green, pro-environmental policy by the federal agency and a pro-industry, dirty coal gambit by the state.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's two U.S. senators say the federal Environmental Protection Agency might go along with the state's plans to reduce haze pollution from power plants. The EPA has proposed taking over some of the North Dakota Health Department's authority to regulate...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Environmental activists are defending the federal Environmental Protection Agency's moves to reduce haze from western North Dakota's coal plants. The plants burn lignite to produce electricity. The EPA and the state Health Department disagree on the best way...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Environmental activists are defending the federal Environmental Protection Agency's moves to reduce haze from western North Dakota's coal plants. The plants burn lignite to produce electricity. The EPA and the state Health Department disagree on the best way...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Federal officials are getting a firsthand look at the latest in farm production technology and techniques, and North Dakota farmers are getting a chance to ask questions about federal regulations and policies. State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring on...

MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency says it has completed its response to this year's Souris River flooding in Minot. EPA staff first went to Minot in early July at the request of the city, state and federal governments. The final shipments of waste from the...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota health officials are fighting with federal regulators about air pollution rules, and the dispute is headed for court. State Health Department administrator Dave Glatt says the argument is about nitrogen oxide pollution that affects the view in...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Sitting Bull College a $300,000 grant to teach students how to clean up and remove toxic waste and other hazardous materials. The Workforce Development and Job Training Grant seeks to promote the creation of...

DENVER (AP) -- In a settlement with conservation groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to give final approval next year of plans to address haze in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and North Dakota. A judge still must approve the settlement filed last week in federal...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has raised new concerns about a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. In a letter to the State Department, the EPA says it is concerned about the risk of oil spills that could affect...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas has filed the opening brief in a legal challenge it and eight other states are making to the Environmental Protection Agency's "tailpipe rule." That rule aims to limit greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's Health Department says it will challenge a federal plan to take control of an air quality program in the state. The Environmental Protection Agency says it expects the challenge. EPA spokeswoman Monica Morales tells The Bismarck Tribune that...