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ROB CHANEY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted a new standard for selenium waste in Montana’s Kootenai River and Koocanusa Reservoir on Thursday, after the Legislature dropped plans to revoke the state rule. “EPA’s action is based on a thorough technical review of the State’s submission and a determination that the adopted standards are based on sound science and consistent with the Clean Water Act,” EPA spokeswoman Laura Flynn Jenkins wrote in ...

(The Center Square) – Leaders of the Louisiana Legislature released a letter to Louisiana taxpayers Friday announcing they will push to “fundamentally change our tax structure.”

A few weeks into the new administration, the federal government is off to a roaring start on climate change. Democrats have indicated climate change is a priority issue they intend

ROB CHANEY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted a new standard for selenium waste in Montana’s Kootenai River and Koocanusa Reservoir on Thursday, after the Legislature dropped plans to revoke the state rule. “EPA’s action is based on a thorough technical review of the State’s submission and a determination that the adopted standards are based on sound science and consistent with the Clean Water Act,” EPA spokeswoman Laura Flynn Jenkins wrote in ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson hasnt yet announced if hell run again.

Feb 26, 2021 Senate President Robert Stivers II, R-Manchester, presents a bill on Thursday. | Photo courtesy of LRC LRC Public Information FRANKFORT, Ky. - Senate President Robert Stivers’ (R-Manchester) bill that would allow the City of Corbin to annex into southern Laurel County is moving to the Senate Floor for vote, after it was passed out of the Standing Committee on State and Local Government Friday afternoon by a vote of 8-2.  Senate Bill 274 (S...

The Democratic race in Wisconsin for U.S. Senate could soon get a bit more crowded, with both state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski and U.S. Rep. Ron Kind each mulling a bid. Godlewski was elected state treasurer in 2018 after leading an effort to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment to do away with that very office in April of that year. Follow along as Phil Hands draws his latest cartoon about U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson. PHIL HANDS , (608) 252-6254 The Eau Claire native has a backgrou...

Fish and Wildlife The Senate Fish and Game Committee voted 7-4 along party lines to advance a bill directing where captured grizzly bears may be released by the state. Senate Bill 337 from Sen. Mike Lang, R-Malta, says that Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks may only relocate grizzly bears to locations approved by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission, and if a “conflict” bear is captured outside of a federal recovery zone, the state may not relocated the bear and must turn it over to ...

Peggy Louise Peterson (Meiners), 73, passed peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at Prestige Care and Rehabilitation – The Orchards in Lewiston. Peggy was born March 8, 1947, and raised in Nezperce on the family farm by her parents, Joe and Lucy Meiners, and alongside her beloved brother, Dale, all who predeceased her. She was a 1965 graduate of Nezperce High School and attended the Lewis-Clark Normal School in Lewiston. She developed a love of Idaho, the outdoors, camping, fishing, cookin...

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