The Latest from ICL
Public lands and public health at risk
NEPA ensures public involvement and participation regardless of whether you’re talking about a plan that will guide national forest management for 20-30 years or a recreation plan for your favorite trail system.
Action-Packed Week at the Statehouse
Science Standards approved, bird resolution flies ahead, PAPA printed, EVs in reverse, and a commissioner resigns.
Pollution at the Heart of Lake Coeur d'Alene
There are already 75 million tons of toxic mine waste on the lake bottom. If upstream contaminants interact with the existing mine waste, a potential disaster could erupt, threatening the health of local communities, fish and wildlife.
Idaho’s Snake River: The Trout Capital of the USA
As the Snake faces stricter limits on pollution in the river and the groundwater, we look forward to working with Idaho’s aquaculture industry to continue to protect the clean water resources that are so important to all of us.
House Moves to Strip Science Standards (and Math and English/Language Arts)
We're counting on the Senate Education Committee to do the right thing and approve the standards in full.
Don’t Blink
This week several noteworthy public lands-related bills stumbled out of the starting gates and the House Ed Committee took an axe to education standards, but we successfully fended off attacks on Building Codes!
PUC Rejects Idaho Power's Request to Reverse Solar Rate Decision
Idaho PUC Declines to clarify fair compensation for new solar customers
A Giant Step Backwards on the 25th Anniversary of Wolf Reintroduction
Let IDFG know you don't support proposals to expand year-round hunting, trapping and snaring of wolves.
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.