A new report released today details the potentially disastrous threats mines in British Columbia pose to Washington and other states in the Northwest. Toxic liquid waste from mines, known as tailings, is stored behind dozens of dams in British Columbia. The analysis estimates there are at least 2.5 billion cubic meters of tailings stored in the Canadian province, or enough to fill one million Olympic-sized pools. .
The busy season of U.S. Supreme Court decisions has come to an end, and among the policies justices struck down is the federal government s ability to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants. But what does it mean for Idaho? Justices ruled that the U.S. .