Farmers and ranchers make a significant contribution in helping North Dakota achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by using regenerative agriculture methods.
North Dakota has approved a $26.8 million loan to pay for a treatment plant at Fargo's regional wastewater complex to treat wastewater for the North Dakota Soybean Processors plant in Casselton.
The EPA enforces a summertime ban on E15 over concerns it contributes to smog in hot weather, though research has since shown the 15% blend may not increase smog relative to the more common E10 sold year-round.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality will launch a pilot project to test paying landowners for results, as opposed to simply paying for conservation projects with the assumption they benefit water quality.
Landowners and community menmbers in Redwood and Cottonwood counties voiced concerns about proposed Summit Carbon Solutions proposed project at meeting in Lamberton, according to the Clean Up our River Environment organization.
The Trump EPA rule had made it impossible for a state to block a federal water permit for a project for any reason other than direct pollution into state waters, such as the project's potential climate impacts. The policy change on Thursday, June 2, 2022, changes that.
Summit Carbon Solutions has hosted six open house meetings in Minnesota for landowners along the proposed route of a pipeline to carry carbon dioxide. The No. 1 message from those meetings has been concern about drain tiles, company officials told the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners.
"I don’t want the roadsides and ditches to be used as garbage receptacles, but places where birds can make their nests, foxes, their lairs and toads, foraging grounds for insects."
“The focus of this conference is how do we bring together agencies, people working within energy, researchers and landowners to learn about reclamation and how we can be more effective to ensure the reclamation that is taking place in the state is successful,” said Miranda Meehan North Dakota State University Extension livestock environmental stewardship specialist.
