The legislation will prohibit stores and restaurants from providing heavier plastic bags, as well as fabric checkout bags, ...

Port Washington’s Louis Simon, 12, was troubled by the environmental effects of single-use plastics, so he took action by ...

North Bay Recycling Center will only be open three hours per week with volunteer monitors stationed outside — mimicking a ...

With graduation season underway and congratulatory yard signs dotting lawns across Dakota County, the county is offering a way for community members to recycle signs at the end of the ...

The first refinery built along the Houston Ship Channel in 1918 shut down its petroleum production this spring, laying off hundreds of workers, but owner LyondellBasell had no intention of closing the ...