Jim Semerad, director of air quality for the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, said the smoky air drifting into the state from the West has been enough to diminish the state’s ...

Wildfire smoke wafted over North Dakota on Wednesday. For Jim Semerad of the Department of Environmental Quality, that will mean more work. That’s because the department will have to show the ...

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — A public webinar about the new Lead and Copper Rule will be hosted by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (NDDEQ). This webinar will be at 4 p.m. on April ...

Jim Semerad, the director of the North Dakota Division of Air Quality, says the generally clean air in North Dakota is one reason they don't have meteorologists on staff that would make Air ...

The refinery appeared to have lost its cooling water from the Missouri River, possibly due to an electrical issue or a problem with a pump, said Jim Semerad, director of the North Dakota ...