BOISE, Idaho, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management is announcing the availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Tri-state Fuel Breaks Project, an effort to reduce flammable vegetation adjacent to roadways. Fuel breaks provide safe anchor points for firefighters and strategic opportunities to more effectively limit the spread of wildfires. This project   more

BOISE, Idaho, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management released the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Fuels Reduction and Rangeland Restoration in the Great Basin. This Draft PEIS is intended to further efforts to conserve and restore sagebrush communities within a 223 million-acre area that includes portions of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California,  more

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: * * * - Project safeguards 250 local mining jobs, 187 service jobs for additional 30 years * * * The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District and U.S. Department of Agriculture Caribou-Targhee National Forest each released a Record of Decision approving portions of the Dairy Syncline Mine and Reclamation Plan under each agency's jurisdi  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Idaho State Office issued the following news release: * * * - Horses will be available via competitive bid by phone or text * * * The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise District Office will offer the first virtual wild horse adoption in Idaho on April 11 from noon to 4 p.m. Both phone and text bids will be accepted. Because of coronavirus concerns, the BLM is working closely with its western Idaho 4  more

SEATTLE, Washington, April 10 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled two federal Clean Water Act cases with Coleman Oil Company, LLC, located in Lewiston, Idaho, owner and operator of a former oil bulk terminal in Wenatchee, Washington, adjacent to the Columbia River. The cases, resolved in the Fall of 2019, were connected to an underground oil spill at the company's Wenatchee terminal in 2017. An estimated  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. issued the following news release: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) is providing a medium-term loan guarantee to support the export of a Daher Kodiak 100 aircraft, made in Sandpoint, Idaho, to Costa Rica Green Airways SRL. The guaranteed lender is Apple Bank in New York. The EXIM-backed export was facilitated by AirFinance Leasing LLC, an EXIM Qualified Advisor. The transaction (approved by EXIM in 2019, but which rece  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available for the state of Idaho to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020 and continuing. Public Assistance federal funding is available to the state, tribal and eligible local governmen  more

KAMIAH, Idaho, April 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests - issued the following news release: Law Enforcement Officers with the USDA Forest Service are seeking any information the public has related to recent damage to the restroom at the Weir Creek trailhead, located off U.S. Highway 12 on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests' Lochsa-Powell Ranger District. On March 18, Forest Service officials found shotgun shells ne  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: Dr. Frank Roberto, recently retired from Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has been elected into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the most prestigious distinctions an engineer can receive. Roberto is currently senior manager for process innovation at Newmont Corporation's Malozemoff Technical Facility in Englewood, Colorado. He worked at INL from 1988 to 2  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - The historic Experimental Breeder Reactor-II dome is getting a well-deserved face-lift, inside and out. * * * Crews recently painted the exterior and performed other work inside the distinctive structure, which still dominates the skyline at Idaho National Laboratory's Materials and Fuels Complex. The EBR-II dome has been empty since the removal of hazardous mat  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: No one wants their data stolen. The financial loss, the headache and the insecurity that come with cyber risk are immense. And yet, so much of our lives takes place in the digital world. We execute financial transactions, share personal information and even date in cyberspace. Keeping this information safe is the crux of a branch of research at Idaho National Laboratory.   more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: As the situation surrounding the COVID-19 global pandemic continues to evolve, we are all adjusting to a new normal. Schools in Idaho, and in most other states, will be closed to students for the next several weeks. The transition to students learning from home can be difficult not only for them, but for their family and other household members. As students, teachers and   more

BOISE, Idaho, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Idaho office issued the following news release: The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Idaho has released the April Water Supply Outlook Report for the 2020 water year. Although most of Idaho received below-normal precipitation during March, two storms at the end of the month brought 1 to 3 inches of much-needed precipitation to central Idaho. Nearly all of Idaho received some precipitat  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The White House issued the following news release on April 9: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Idaho and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020, and continuing. The President's action makes Federal funding available to State, tribal, and eligible local governments and cer  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The Summary Report of the Tri-Lab Workshop on Modeling & Analysis of Current & Future Energy Systems, which was hosted by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), has been released. The workshop was organized by the three key U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) applied energy laboratories, NETL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release: As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on March 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Ida-Beef LLC (Ida), of Burley, Idaho, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Ida wai  more