Idaho Department of Environmental Quality

Wildfire season is in full swing, and smoke from Central Oregon and Washington fires is funneling into Western Idaho, filling the air across the Treasure Valley.

Summer is in full bloom, but there’s one particular bloom this season you should know about to keep you and your pets safe.

Treasure Valley residents woke up Tuesday to one of the smokiest days in recent years. Much of the haze is coming from a pair of wildfires in Eastern Oregon.

With wildfire season ramping up in the West, smoke has contributed to more polluted air across the Treasure Valley.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Board of Environmental Quality Wednesday pulled back a permit granted last year to Perpetua Resources for its planned gold and antimony mine at Stibnite in Valley County.

This week DEQ submitted a $100 million grant proposal on behalf of Idaho to the Environmental Protection Agency in hopes of securing funding for some of these projects, which it emphasized will be voluntary.

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grant is funded by the EPA with money from the Inflation Reduction Act.

A tiny town in eastern Idaho is dealing with lead contamination from some very old silver mines.

CAFOs are not eligible for one of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality’s main water quality improvement grants, so agriculture industry groups lobbied the legislature for a separate program.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has $5 million in one-time funds to hand out to confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.