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 ...

Compost filter socks are mesh tubes filled with composted bark and wood chips. Besides making lovely wedding gifts, they are also used at construction sites to limit the amount of silt in the water ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. Oilfield filter socks, used to filter wastewater at drilling sites, ...

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 ...

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.

This March 3, 2014 file photo provided by the North Dakota Health Department shows bags full of radioactive oil filter socks, the nets that strain liquids during the oil production process, piled in ...

The North Dakota Health Department plans to meet this week with the Wyoming company responsible for piling potentially radioactive filter socks and oil debris on open trailers at a rural location near ...

Police and state health officials are investigating the illegal dumping of radioactive filter socks in an abandoned gas station in the tiny remote town of Noonan in Divide County. “This is a vacant ...

MCKENZIE COUNTY — Federal and state health officials are investigating leaking trailers loaded with thousands of pounds of potentially radioactive filter socks and debris parked on rural property ...

The investigation showed that RP Services was not trying to hide the filter socks or get rid of them illegally, said Scott Radig, director of the health department’s Division of Solid Waste. The ...