The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new permit and rules for recreational miners who use small-scale suction dredging equipment to explore for gold in rivers and creeks across Idaho, the ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new permit and rules for recreational miners who use small-scale suction dredging equipment to explore for gold in rivers and ...

Oregon’s suction dredge miners, recently banned from gold mining in salmon-bearing streams, are taking a new tack. They’ve formed a nonprofit, called StreamSavers, and are asking the Legislature to ...

An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen are battling in court against gold miners who want to suck the precious metal out of riverbeds in California in a process known as suction ...

A federal court has upheld an environmental law that protects fish habitat from a certain type of gold mining in Oregon rivers and streams. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed ...

Sen. Guy Palumbo (D-Maltby) has worked on several sustainability-focused bills this year as vice chair of the Environment, Energy and Technology committee, including clean fuels, solar power, electric ...

BOISE, Idaho — A suction-dredge gold miner from California who operated in an Idaho river containing federally protected salmon and steelhead without permits required by the Clean Water Act must pay ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. judge in Idaho has rejected a California man’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by an environmental group alleging he did suction dredging for gold in Idaho ...

BOISE – A suction-dredge gold miner who operated in an Idaho river containing federally protected salmon and steelhead without required permits is facing what could be substantial fines. A U.S.

The long-simmering feud involving tribal groups, environmentalists and hobbyist miners is now complicating life for small suction-dredge miners in the historic mining state of Idaho. The Pacific ...