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BISMARCK — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple vowed Wednesday to use “every tool available,” including potential legal action, to fight the federal government’s proposed tightening of emission standards for power plants and petroleum refineries. Speaking at a summit at Bismarck...

The clock is ticking for Minnesota’s indoor ice rinks. By 2020, the refrigerant chemical now used at half the state’s 240 arenas to make ice no longer will be manufactured or imported into the U.S. as part of a global effort aimed at ridding the world of greenhouse gases linked...

DULUTH, Minn. — The smell of wood smoke wafting on a cold winter’s night may be a hallmark of life in the Upper Midwest, but the federal government says it also may be a health hazard. The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday moved to reduce pollution from new wood stoves,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday released a proposal for strict new regulations on carbon emissions from new U.S. power plants, causing some of North Dakota's top politicians to fire back. Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., both...

The headline "EPA Oks AgEnergy plant" could be misinterpreted. The Environmental Protection Agency approved the Renewable Fuel Standards for the Dakota Spirit AgEnergy plant in Spiritwood, N.D., however the plant can't officially OK'd by the EPA until the 30-day public comment period...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's governor and congressional delegation say the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to most of the state's clean air plan for regional haze. The EPA and North Dakota's Health Department have differed on the most efficient way to reduce...

BISMARCK (AP) -- State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said 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 said the EPA has approved a plan that will protect...

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...