WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- Earthworks issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Stakeholders Urge Expedited Action as Selenium Pollution Threatens Water & Fish * * * Just over one week ago, the U.S. Forest Service issued its final decision on a cleanup plan for the Smoky Canyon Mine, an operating phosphate mine with severe selenium pollution that threatens trout streams below the mine, extending from southeast Idaho to Wyoming. The mine is owned by the J.R. Simplot Company (Simplot more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: BOISE, Idaho Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a federal district court decision blocking enforcement of a 2023 legal opinion, issued by Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador, that claimed Idaho's abortion ban proh more PR