WILLISTON, N.D. - A contractor that stockpiled filter socks in McKenzie County last year paid a $16,000 fine, with $87,000 in fines dismissed, and agreed to no longer operate in North Dakota.

WILLISTON, N.D. – A contractor that stockpiled filter socks in McKenzie County last year paid a $16,000 fine, with $87,000 in fines dismissed, and agreed to no longer operate in North Dakota.

BISMARCK, N.D. -- New requirements will hopefully prevent radioactive filter socks from being illegally transported and dumped in the oil patch. Starting June 1, operators of all 412 saltwater ...

A new study finds that compost filters socks can reduce soil erosion from croplands and reduce the amount of herbicide in runoff. Water runoff from cropped farm fields can contain large amounts of ...

BISMARCK - North Dakota announced new rules Wednesday for oilfield waste known as filter socks that aim to prevent the illegal stockpiles of the waste that have been turning up in remote corners of ...

MADISON, WI, June 21st, 2010 – Water runoff from cropped farm fields can contain large amounts of eroded soil as well as some of the fertilizer and herbicide. Expanding on existing conservation ...

State health officials say radiation from material stored in leaking trailers in northwest North Dakota doesn’t appear to pose a health hazard. The Bismarck Tribune (https://bit.ly/1jWbrSb) reported ...

The Three Affiliated Tribes’ environmental division is worried that children will play with the potentially radioactive filters used by the oil industry that are illegally dumped in fields, dumpsters ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — A contractor that stockpiled filter socks in McKenzie County last year paid a $16,000 fine, with $87,000 in fines dismissed, and agreed to no longer operate in North Dakota.