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Herding cattle.

Gov. Mark Dayton unveiled a plan Monday that would resurface or replace 2,200 miles of roadway, repair 330 bridges and boost funding for local infrastructure projects — but would come at a noticeable cost to taxpayers.

Herding cattle.

The state's congressional delegation is urging the White House to fully fund the decontamination and decommissioning of a Cold War-era uranium plant in southern Ohio where hundreds of workers feared layoffs last fall amid budget concerns.

State officials, from the leaders of the Democrat-controlled Legislature to Gov. Chris Christie's transportation commissioner, along with outside groups are stepping up warnings about the dire state of New Jersey's bridges, roads and tunnels.

Authorities expect to determine Thursday if thousands of residents of a Montana city can drink from their taps after a broken pipeline spilled oil into a river and contaminated their water supply.

Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt says Utah's push to take control of federal lands in the state is a radical measure and a threat to the outdoor recreation industry.

There was little public appetite at a hearing Thursday for a bill that would pull New Hampshire out of a multistate effort to reduce carbon emissions.

To build or not to build? That question is at the heart of the debate over the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

In the first State of the State address of his second term, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promising a long list of measures including tax cuts for small business, property tax relief, funding for bridges and subways and efforts to improve public schools.

The Republican-controlled House has easily passed a bill designed to expedite the approval of natural gas pipelines.

Authorities scrambled to decontaminate a water system serving 6,000 eastern Montana residents after a cancer-causing component of oil was found downstream of a Yellowstone River pipeline spill.

Lower gas prices have had an added bonus in Minnesota beyond fatter wallets: Train traffic is leveling off, giving regulators space to refocus on safety issues, a state railroad official told lawmakers Wednesday.

The Republican-controlled Senate has rejected Democrats' efforts to ban exports from the Keystone XL oil pipeline and to require building the project with American-made steel.

The head of a firm that intends to buy a shuttered Bucksport, Maine, paper mill says he will be skeptical about three companies interested in purchasing and reopening the facility until they offer prices.

The new Republican-controlled Congress is facing an old problem: where to find the money for highway and transit programs.

The European Union's top court has ruled that Ryanair has the right to block or impose conditions on price comparison websites that mine data from the budget carrier's online database without its permission.

Officials say farmers in California now have to abide by the nation's strictest rules for a widely used pesticide.

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday issued three rulings limiting some sales tax exemptions for construction activities by businesses.

A federal judge will rule next week on a union's antitrust lawsuit that seeks to block the sale of a Maine paper mill to a Canadian metal recycler.