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Attorney General Labrador Files Brief to Stop Biden-Harris Administration’s Electric-Truck Mandate

[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a coalition of 23 other states filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris Administration from imposing an electric-vehicle mandate on truck manufacturers in Nebraska v. EPA.  This coalition has joined the suit alongside Nebraska as petitioners to challenge […]

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Destructive Forest Mismanagement

Our Forests are Dying & Burning due to Poor Forest Management & the Ban on DDT Insecticide which Controlled Pine Beetles. Please work to restore DDT to stop the death & burning of our precious US Forest Service forests. DDT was used very safely to control Pine Beetles. Poor forest management of not allowing the […]

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AG Labrador Sues EPA and Biden Administration to Stop New Rule Violating State Water Rights

[BOISE] – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, along with attorneys general from North Dakota, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, South Carolina, and South Dakota, sued the EPA and the Biden Administration to protect state rights over their water and wildlife resources. Idaho and North Dakota are leading the coalition of states, which filed their complaint in the […]

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Congressman Fulcher Leads Effort to Reverse Biden’s EV Mandate

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01), and U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced legislation under the Congressional Review Act to stop Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule for heavy-duty vehicle emission standards that would require 30-40% of all new trucks be electric in just eight years. This legislation is being introduced alongside U.S. Senator […]

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Idaho Stands with Kansas and Arkansas Against Proposed EPA Rule Impacting Meat and Poultry Industry

[BOISE] — Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador issued a statement condemning the proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding the liquid waste produced by meat and poultry processing plants in the United States. The Idaho Attorney General joins other states in expressing concern over the unnecessary and detrimental nature of this proposed regulation. “This […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Attorney General Labrador Joins Letter Rebuking EPA’s Proposed New Rule on Power Plants

Boise, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a West Virginia-led coalition of 21 states opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new rule on existing coal, natural gas, and oil-fired power plants. The proposal attempts to regulate those plants under the Clean Air Act by imposing more stringent emissions standards. It ignores last […]

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A Supreme Court Victory for Property Rights, and one Idaho family

In a groundbreaking decision, the United States Supreme Court has handed down a monumental victory for property rights with its ruling in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 25, 2023. The ruling, which has far-reaching implications for property owners in Idaho and across the nation, represents a significant victory for […]

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Why our Federal Forests are so Poorly Managed

I believe that each of our elected federal Senators and Representatives in Washington D.C. needs to have at least one qualified natural resource staffer to help them understand the problems we face in our counties and state. Idaho is a very wealthy state when it comes to natural resources but a very poor state when […]

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Outsourcing Government: How Deep-Pocketed Philanthropies Are Pushing Climate Policy In State Governments

National elites in climate research, philanthropy, activism, and the private sector joined elected officials in Denver last week at the posh Four Seasons, a five-star high-rise hotel to strategize how to carry on a climate agenda without taxpayer dollars. Former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy led a ‘Who’s Who’ of former administration policy […]

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The Deceit Behind STEM

For several years there has been much emphasis for a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education foisted upon our youth. The question arose, why so much emphasis in these educational areas, especially at the expense of other important, and needed, educational subjects? Although any industry could be used as an example for why a […]

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Era of federal ‘sue and settle’ deals is over, and the greens are freaked

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — About 20 years ago, government agencies stopped collecting data on these settlements, so they could no longer report to Congress on the amount of money involved, or the groups to whom it was being paid. Long-time observers know it amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars, and the recipients […]

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House Resources Committee mulls land bills removing federal roadblocks from local communities

— Published with Permission of FreeRangeReport.com — H.R. 1547 rectifies a long-standing, unfulfilled agreement from 1989 between the City of Tucson, Arizona (City) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The deal gave the City clear title of Udall Park by removing BLM’s reversionary interest in exchange for $4 million worth of land. Due to […]

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