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POCATELLO, Idaho — Idaho Water Resource Board Chairman Roger Chase is booked to address members of a congressional subcommittee on Oct. 4 about the state’s proactive and unique approach towards reversing decades of declining groundwater levels in the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. Chase will speak to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water […]
BOISE, Idaho (News Release) Idaho Water Resource Board Chairman Roger Chase will address the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power on Wednesday, Oct. 4th about Idaho’s use of surplus winter stream flows to recharge the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA). Senator Jim Risch, R-Idaho, is a member of the subcommittee, which […]
A massive wildfire season has grabbed headlines in Central Oregon and across the Western United States — and that attention could propel a long-stalled congressional bill forward. Several senators from Western states, including Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have thrown their support behind the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2017, which would dramatically shift the way fighting […]
The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the federal government to offer more tools to small businesses to guard their networks from cyber threats. The legislation offered by Sens. James Risch (R-Idaho) and Brian Schatz(D-Hawaii) directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to publish and disseminate resources to small businesses that choose to […]
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – Getting ready for the next big blaze. Fires devastating the West this year have claimed homes, lives and billions of dollars. Senators in Washington say they are looking for a solution to how wildfire readiness is funded. An Idaho native says he wants to see action. “They weren’t here when we needed […]
A bipartisan group of western senators continues pushing for their legislation to fix “fire borrowing” heard strong evidence from Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and fire experts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service that Congress should pass their bill to end fire borrowing. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, introduced by […]
(Washington, D.C., September 26, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue hosted U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) today at the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) for a 2017 fire briefing to hear about this year’s efforts to contain wildfires […]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) today is commending U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) introduction of S.1854, the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2017, which will strengthen the criminal penalties for thefts of firearms from retailers and impose mandatory minimum sentences. “Thefts from federally licensed firearms retailers represent particularly brazen offenses that hold potential […]