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Minnesota would tax farmers $0.40 per ton of fertilizer to help test and clean up thousands of private wells contaminated with agricultural runoff under a bill that cleared the House's main agricultural committee. The proposed tax is smaller than earlier versions that had called for charging up to $0.99 per ton in the first year and escalating after that. It comes amid demands from the EPA ...

CANTON, Minn. — Water shoots up from the hills of Vance and Bonnie Haugen's idyllic dairy farm here in a valley close to the Iowa border. That's why they named it Springside Farm in the '90s. Unfortunately, the nitrate shoots up here, too. Nitrate levels in the Haugens' water have steadily increased for the past 30 years, now ranging somewhere from 6 to 9 milligrams per liter of water every ...

A thriving global economy is a major source of pollution, which presents several hazards to human health. Zhongyuan University of Technology researchers have suggested a novel approach for effectively converting nitrate, a common water contaminant, back into useful ammonia.

More than 100 people attended Thursday night's hearing, with 30 people providing public comments in favor or in opposition of the change.

The European Commission said on Wednesday it would sue Belgium in the EU Court of Justice over its failure to act on nitrate pollution in the country's southern region of Wallonia.