Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho and Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington are reviving efforts to protect the four lower Snake River dams with the Northwest Energy Security Act, to ensure the dams remain ...

The change from the Biden to the Trump administration is primed to alter the trajectory of salmon recovery in the Snake and ...

The pace of salmon recovery work — and difficulty in funding these complex projects — is hindering our ability to recover ...

The Stockholm Environment Institute today released a technical study showing that the Lower Snake River dams waste roughly 30,400-acre feet of water every ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation are reopening a four-year-old study that rejected calls from ...

President Joe Biden and his administration engaged more in the effort to recover Snake River salmon ... Northwest to recover salmon runs that spawn in the Columbia River and its tributaries.

Aside from Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, many Republicans who may have the returning president’s ear bitterly oppose dam breaching.

Chuck Johnson was 25 years old when he helped bring Oregon’s nuclear energy industry to a sudden halt. Fresh out of college, Johnson helped lead signature gathering and field organizing to pass ...

Lower Granite Dam is the uppermost of the Lower Four Snake River Dams. It sits 40 miles downstream ... entire segments of river to anadromous fish like salmon and steelhead, and by inundating ...

HALFWAY, Ore. — Idaho Power Co. recently rebuilt its aging Oxbow Hatchery near the dam of the same name along the Snake River at the upper end of Hells Canyon. The salmon and steelhead hatchery ...

Their preliminary research, which they're now preparing for peer review, suggests wintertime "pulses" of salt washing into streams used by spawning salmon can have negative effects on eggs and ...