Jim Risch: “This particular bill recognizes those facilities, extends to them the grandfather rights that they should have had.”

The CLEAN Act requires annual geothermal lease sales, cutting red tape and offering more efficient and responsible opportunities to access this natural resource.

Opening an Idaho-based VBOC will improve the SBA’s outreach, counseling, and business training for Gem State veterans, reducing barriers to entrepreneurship and providing them resources to achieve self-sufficiency.

Vicki and I wish Idahoans and all Americans a safe and joyful Independence Day!

Idaho has long benefited from our abundant natural geothermal resources, and there is great potential to ramp up the production of this reliable energy to power our communities.