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9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirms ruling, suction dredge miner unlawfully polluted Idaho river
On November 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that professional gold miner Shannon Poe violated the federal Clean Water Act when he dumped suction dredge mining waste into the South Fork of the Clearwater River without a required pollution permit.
When the Walls Come Tumbling Down
This week: an effort to entirely eliminate the Idaho Energy Conservation Code, politics and wolf management, dredge mining rules, science standards, and working with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.