Idaho Republicans going green in red state Republican Lt. Gov. Jim Risch ticks off a list of environmental accomplishments he made in his short term - seven months - as governor. The candidate for U.S. Senate said he stopped a coal-fired power plant in the Magic Valley, signed rules that kept new mercury sources out of the state, negotiated a new rule to protect roadless national forests and signed a bill to increase alternative energy use in the state to 25 percent by 2025. "I've got a green streak a quarter-mile wide across my back," Risch boasted. Risch's unabashed efforts to court environmental voters represent a major shift for Idaho Republicans. For more than a generation Idaho Republican candidates, like current U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, ran against environmentalists as much as they ran against Democrats. Now Republicans Sen. Mike Crapo and Rep. Mike Simpson have wilderness bills pending in Congress. Gov. Butch Otter has led the drive to get state agencies to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming....