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Boise-area sewage treatment plant violated clean-water law 16 times. Here’s what happened
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 5 months agoKuna’s North Wastewater Treatment Plant was a state-of-the-art plant when it was built in 2009. But...
Idaho goldminer fined $150,000 for unauthorized dredging of South Fork of Clearwater River
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 30—A miner who admitted to using equipment to suck up gold from the bed of a 62-mile-long river in north central Idaho has been fined $150,000 by a federal judge for failing to receive ...
Nez Perce Tribe challenges air quality permit
Lewiston Tribune, Idaho via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 28—The Nez Perce Tribe is challenging an air quality permit issued to operators of a proposed open-pit gold mine in the headwaters of the South Fork of the Salmon River. The tribe along ...
Groups file new lawsuit to stop Idaho gold mine drilling
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws in approving exploratory drilling by a Canadian company hoping to build a gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park, two environmental ...
‘Hot water pollution’ lawsuit threat aims to remove 4 Eastern WA dams to save salmon
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFour conservation and fishing groups plan a lawsuit over high water temperatures in the Snake River,...
This Boise company already raised utility rates for gas this year. Prices could go up again
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIntermountain Gas customers probably noticed a substantial increase on their gas bills last month....
Conservation groups intend to ask judge to breach Snake River dams
Lewiston Tribune, Idaho via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoJul. 22—A coalition of environmental groups will ask a federal judge to order dams on the lower Snake River to be breached as a necessary step to prevent the extinction of endangered sockeye ...
Miner appeals Clean Water Act fine
Lewiston Tribune, Idaho via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 6—A California man who was ordered to pay $150,000 for violating the Clean Water Act while operating a suction dredge mine on the South Fork of the Clearwater River is appealing the fine ...
Environmentalists fought possible open-pit mine near Boise River. Now this is happening
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 6 months ago“If all goes to plan... (it) has the potential to jeopardize one of Boise’s primary sources of...
Idaho cobalt mine could help transition U.S. to green energy, but at what cost?
Idaho Statesman McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoRising over the River of No Return that winds through Central Idaho’s city of Challis, the dry...
