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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.
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The Climate Pollution Reduction Grant is funded by the EPA with money from the Inflation Reduction Act.
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A tiny town in eastern Idaho is dealing with lead contamination from some very old silver mines.
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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.
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The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has $5 million in one-time funds to hand out to confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.
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Water conditions are improving in Lake Cascade after an early season algae bloom turned much of the lake green before the July 4th holiday.
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Idaho state officials are encouraging the public to leave feedback about suggestions on where electric vehicle stations should be placed.
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Idaho Power will pay more than a million dollars in fines under a proposed settlement with Idaho’s department of environmental quality over unpermitted pollution at 15 hydroelectric facilities in southern Idaho.
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A new report by an environmental advocacy group shows that, in Idaho, more than half the state’s rivers and two-thirds of lakes are impaired - but local experts say Idaho’s water quality is actually pretty good.
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While several agencies have collected data in the Magic Valley area since the 1990s, there hasn’t been a recent analysis of regional groundwater contamination trends.