June 13, 2023
The agribusiness J.R. Simplot Co. is facing headwinds as it seeks to uphold a recent expansion of the company's Idaho fertilizer plant, with the U.S. government and a local tribe claiming it cannot challenge a March court order that declared the expansion project unlawful.
April 04, 2023
An Idaho federal judge granted a partial win to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in their challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, saying the agency violated a 1900 federal law that limits the disposal of treaty-ceded lands.
October 04, 2022
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have urged an Idaho federal judge to grant them a quick win in their suit challenging a U.S. Department of the Interior-approved land transfer to expand a plant at a Superfund site near tribal land, saying the DOI's review gave short shrift to the Tribes' treaty rights, environmental justice and several federal laws.
August 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior has asked an Idaho federal judge to grant it a quick win against the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes' suit claiming the agency wrongly approved a land exchange to expand a plant at a Superfund site near tribal land, saying the government conducted the environmental review it needed to and properly found the land swap was in the public interest.
May 03, 2022
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes urged an Idaho federal judge to grant summary judgment in their suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior over their approval of a land exchange for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant at a Superfund site near tribal land, arguing it violated a federal law limiting the disposal of treaty-ceded lands.