SODA SPRINGS — J.R. Simplot Co. has rerouted a stream away from tainted waste rock and built a $30 million water treatment plant in its efforts to keep selenium out of the water supply near its Smoky ...

Additional coverage, including a photo of a deformed, two-headed trout found near the J.R. Simplot mine, can be found at the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Reports commissioned by the J.R. Simplot Co.

The federal government has suggested a tweak to J.R. Simplot Co.’s planned Smoky Canyon Mine expansion, which regulators say would reduce selenium impacts while also enabling the company to use a less ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ A coalition of environmental groups is challenging the U.S. Forest Service's decision to approve plans by the J.R. Simplot Co. to expand its phosphate mining operation in southeast ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the expansion of a phosphate mine in southeastern Idaho that opponents say would damage roadless areas near Yellowstone National Park. A three-judge ...

BOISE, Idaho — Federal land managers have released a final plan for a phosphate mine with five open pits as well as reclamation work in eastern Idaho proposed by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company. The ...

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - The Idaho Falls District Bureau of Land Management and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest have released a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that would ...

BOISE, Idaho - A coalition of environmental groups is challenging in federal court a decision to allow the J.R. Simplot Co. to expand its phosphate mining operation across part of a wilderness area in ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal land managers have released a final plan for a phosphate mine with five open pits as well as reclamation work in eastern Idaho proposed by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company.