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By: Staff The Spokesman-Review Conservation groups and fishing interests have challenged the federal government’s latest plan for making Columbia River dams safe for salmon runs. The complaint was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland against NOAA Fisheries…
By: Thomas Boyd The Oregonian New data suggest that while fewer California sea lions are showing up at Bonneville Dam and eating fewer spring salmon than just a few years ago, the number of Steller sea lions…
By: Marc Stergionis Great Falls Tribune There’s been a flood of documents washing into the Public Service Commission over NorthWestern Energy’s agreement to purchase PPL Montana’s 11 electricity-producing dams. Some of those documents — recent consultant and agency analyses…
By: Rob Davis The Oregonian The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans Thursday to shoot and kill 16,000 double-crested cormorants on an island near the Columbia River’s mouth starting next spring, in an effort to improve survival of…
A sweeping new White House plan to reduce carbon emissions from the nation’s energy supply may have less impact on Washington than almost every other state. But that’s because the country is just now catching up. By: Craig…
Utility uses tagged fish to check migration systems’ efficiency Christine Pratt Wenatchee World WENATCHEE – See any helicopters dipping baskets into the Columbia River below Rock Island Dam lately? It’s not what you may be thinking. The Grant County…
Thanks to Eastern Washington’s cheap and renewable hydroelectricity, Moses Lake will have “the largest carbon-fiber plant on earth,” a German auto executive leading the project said Friday. By: Dominic Gates The Seattle Times MOSES LAKE — By early…
By Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic From earlier snow melts to more wildfires, the Yakima River Basin is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, according to a new national report released Tuesday by the Obama administration. The…
By: Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic SELAH — Farmers across the Yakima Basin depend on a network of canals to deliver water for their crops. Now, scientists believe the canals could provide another resource to the region: renewable energy….
The quiet shuttering of an ambitious Oregon project — the nation’s first grid-connected, commercial-scale wave park — is the latest setback for the nascent wave-energy sector in the United States. By: Joshua Hunt and Diane Cardwell The New…