Idaho Green News

Interior secretary who urges its approval and the Environmental Protection Agency, which wants additional pollution safeguards. Idaho — A proposed Monsanto Co. phosphate mine slated to produce ingredients for Roundup weedkiller generated nearly 7,000 public comments, including from a former...

D on Gillispie and his quest to build a nuclear power somewhere in Idaho or the West got a couple of boosts last week. More than 250 people showed up for the second time in two years in Payette to...

Idaho phosphate mine the company depends on to make its Roundup weedkiller to stop the leakage of selenium and heavy metals into a tributary of the Blackfoot River...Idaho phosphate mine the company depends on to make its Roundup weedkiller to...

Renewable energy is one place the state could make job gains, said the Idaho Department of Commerce...Energy Information Agency ranked Idaho seventh nationally in its renewable energy generating capacity, and an Idaho Department of Labor analysis found energy sector employers...

The seasons will be extended to March 31 unless harvest limits are reached in the Panhandle, Palouse-Hells Canyon, Selway, Middle Fork, Salmon, Southern, and South Idaho zones...The seasons already were set to close March 31 in the Lolo and Sawtooth...

And while its actions to restore rangeland habitat and reduce conflicts with gray wolves remain priorities for the local sheep outfit, its also beginning to make some notable contributions to scientific research, most recently participating in a study on pronghorn...

Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, was among 13 original cosponsors of the bill authored by Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., when it was introduced in April. Simpson signed on Nov. 3. "I have always been a strong proponent of using clean alternative...

Slickspot peppergrass (Lepidium papilliferum) has been found on more than 20,000 acres in Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee and Payette counties...Air Force, which use large portions of the core remaining habitat of the plant in Owyhee County. Ranchers may be...

National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis didn't wait long to reach into his Idaho roots. Jarvis, who served as superintendent of Craters of the Moon National Monument, picked the University of Idaho's Gary Machlis to serve as the first National...