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• High court backs Idahoans

  March 22, 2012 in City on Page A1 A Priest Lake, Idaho, couple has prevailed in a property rights case involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Supreme Court sided unanimously with Mike and Chantell Sackett, who … 7

• Sacketts tell panel about EPA woe

  March 1, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A6 WASHINGTON – A North Idaho couple took their fight against the Environmental Protection Agency to Congress this week, saying the federal government is destroying people’s lives. Mike and Chantell Sackett, …

• Curtailed Silver Valley cleanup is ‘interim’ EPA plan

  February 16, 2012 in Idaho on Page A1 Three decades from now, Silver Valley residents could still be living in a Superfund site, under the federal government’s scaled-back cleanup plans. After an outcry from Idaho’s elected officials and …

• Justices criticize EPA’s dealings with ID homeowners

  January 9, 2012 in Nation/World, Idaho Several Supreme Court justices are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners. 8

• Idaho wetlands fight in high court Monday

  January 8, 2012 in Idaho on Page B3 The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the opening arguments in Sackett v. EPA on Monday, a Priest Lake couple’s fight over whether their building lot contains wetlands. Mike and Chantell …

• Priest Lake couple’s land dispute with EPA going to high court

  November 6, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 PRIEST LAKE, Idaho – Four years ago, Mike and Chantell Sackett cleared a lot to build a house overlooking one of North Idaho’s most scenic mountain lakes. They pictured a … 17

• Bill would limit federal changes to dust standards

  October 27, 2011 in City on Page A6 WASHINGTON – Dust regulations for farmers aren’t going to change, the Environmental Protection Agency assured Congress recently. That’s not enough for House Republicans; they want a law. The EPA was …

• Feds, Midnite Mine operators reach deal on cleanup

  October 1, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 The federal government has reached an agreement with one of the world’s largest mining companies on a $193 million cleanup of a defunct uranium mine on the Spokane Indian Reservation. … 4

• Hecla Superfund settlement approved

  September 9, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 A federal judge has approved a $263.4 million settlement with Hecla Mining Co. that resolves one of the nation’s largest Superfund lawsuits. The money paid by Hecla will be used …

• PCBs still found in products — and river

  August 16, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 Yesterday’s news becomes tomorrow’s broadsheet at Inland Empire Paper Co., where the newsprint rolling off the paper machine contains 40 percent recycled fiber content. But there’s a dirty little downside … 24

• Groups say river cleanup is flawed

  July 19, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 Two environmental groups are threatening to sue the federal government over what they say are flaws in a long-awaited Spokane River cleanup plan. The Sierra Club and the Center for … 1

• Trace radiation found in Spokane milk

  March 30, 2011 in News, City Minimal but still acceptable levels of radiation have been detected in Spokane-area milk, federal health and safety regulators confirmed today. 8

• Hazardous dumping site debate raised

  March 17, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 A hazardous waste repository built two years ago near Old Mission State Park has stirred debate among archaeologists about whether federal and state officials complied with historic preservation laws on … 1

• Mining company agrees to $6.8 million settlement in Bunker Hill cleanup

  February 16, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to pay $6.8 million to the federal government, state of Idaho and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe for its decades-old role in polluting the Coeur d’Alene …

• Energy Department wants to remove Hanford reactor

  October 19, 2010 in Region A key Department of Energy report is recommending that the K East Reactor be torn down rather than put into long-term storage like most of Hanford’s other reactors.

• Court rules on logging roads, orders EPA regulation

  August 18, 2010 in City on Page A7 GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the … 1

• Residents fear cleanup will hinder Silver Valley economy

  August 10, 2010 in City on Page A1 KELLOGG – Too far-reaching, too costly. Another knock for the Silver Valley. That was the consensus of public testimony Monday evening at a town hall meeting on the U.S. Environmental … 10

• Cleanup plan for CdA Basin shifts focus from soil to water

  August 5, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 As water percolates through old mine workings in the headwaters of the Coeur d’Alene River, it picks up lead, arsenic, zinc and other heavy metals. The metals stunt fish populations … 2

• EPA: Clean-air rule would overturn Bush-era plan

  July 6, 2010 in Nation/World The Obama administration is proposing new rules to tighten restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants in the eastern half of the country, a key step to cut emissions that …

• Lawmakers pressure EPA on Montana town’s cleanup

  July 6, 2010 in City on Page A6 BILLINGS – Montana’s congressional delegation is seeking assurances from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the government will not leave the asbestos-contaminated town of Libby before its cleanup is complete. … 1

• Agencies seek more lead testing

  June 17, 2010 in City, Idaho A workshop on how to increase blood-lead testing of children and pregnant women in the Silver Valley is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 29 at Silver …

• EPA plans next stage of Superfund cleanup

  June 16, 2010 in Idaho on Page A7 The silver and lead mines that once flourished in Burke Canyon are a distant memory, but a negative aspect of their legacy lives on in the metals that wash down …

• Stigma hampers kids’ blood testing in Silver Valley

  June 2, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 Stigmas associated with “being leaded” discourage parents living in the Bunker Hill Superfund site from getting their children tested for lead exposure, says a new study from the Johns Hopkins … 4

• New EPA rule requires more care around lead paint

  April 21, 2010 in Nation/World Contractors across the country must take additional precautions when renovating houses where children could be exposed to lead dust from old paint, a safety measure that could add thousands of … 2

• Rail site cleanup slated for summer

  April 21, 2010 in Idaho on Page A6 Union Pacific and BNSF Railway have agreed to clean up historic mining waste at old rail sites in Idaho’s Silver Valley.

• Sterling Mining proposes $1.25 million penalty

  March 18, 2010 in Business on Page A7 A North Idaho company offered to pay a $1.25 million penalty over unpaid smelter royalties from the Sunshine Mine near Big Creek, Idaho. Sterling Mining Co. reached the proposed agreement …

• Blue Tee to pay for mine site cleanup

  March 9, 2010 in City on Page A5 Blue Tee Corp. will pay $1.36 million to clean up a mining Superfund site in Stevens County. The company operated a mine and milling facility near the community of Leadpoint …

• EPA adds lead rules to painters’ prep work

  February 3, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 Spokane’s South Hill provides painting contractor Shon Vantuyl with most of his clients. Many of the Craftsman-style homes he works on date to the early 1900s, when lead was a … 2

• Coeur d’Alene Basin mining cleanup hastened

  January 15, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Cleanup of contaminated residential yards and other properties in the Coeur d’Alene Basin is so far ahead of schedule that Idaho lawmakers on Thursday authorized speeding up spending …

• EPA pushes smog limits

  January 8, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations. The new limits – which are …

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