Clean Water Act

A dairy owner north of Shoshone will pay a fine, conform to court ordered regulations, and serve probation for a misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act.

A Lincoln County dairy and its owner has agreed to pay a fine for violating the Clean Water Act after discharging manure water into a nearby canal in 2017.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials say Idaho's logging rules intended to protect water quality in streams inhabited by fish are effective and that loggers are following those rules.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal appeals court has blocked an Obama administration rule that attempts to clarify which small streams, wetlands and other waterways the government can shield from pollution and development.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Attorneys who have been arguing over state and federal powers have filed their written positions over whether a judge's decision to block a new Obama administration water rule applies nationwide.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is suing Jerome Cheese Company for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act. In a civil complaint, filed in Boise's U.S. District Court last week, The EPA contends that the Davisco Foods International-owned Jerome Cheese Company in southern Idaho dumped waste water containing pollutants into an irrigation system that eventually flows into the Snake River...