An advocate noted a Stockholm Environment Institute study found the annual evaporation of water kept in reservoirs is 17 percent of the water currently used for agricultural irrigation. Breaching ...

If the lower Snake River dams are breached, the way in which people recreate in the 140-mile corridor from Lewiston to the ...

Federal agencies will take a new look at the findings of a four-year, $55 million federal study completed in 2020 that rejected calls to tear down the four lower Snake River dams. A coalition of ...

The reservoirs created by the four lower Snake River dams lose more than 30,000 acre feet of water each year. That's enough water for the household needs of 240,000 people, the Stockholm ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation announced that they will update an environmental study on the management of federal dams along the Columbia and Snake ...

Jm Risch, R-Idaho, and Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., is designed to protect the four lower Snake River dams from removal. The Northwest Energy Security Act directs the federal Columbia River power ...

It also committed to helping figure out how to offset the hydropower, transportation and other benefits provided by four controversial dams on the Snake River, should Congress ever agree to breach ...

There is little else that they eat. The Snake River has been the source of the largest runs of spring/summer chinook, but the dams have driven them to the edge of extinction. The orcas are starving.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration and Bureau of Reclamation today released the first step of a court-ordered National Environmental Policy Act review of the federal ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Sen. Matt Boehnke (R-Kennewick) filed legislation to push federal lawmakers to take action to protect four ...

In a recent opinion piece about barging grain on the lower Snake River, Stacey Satterlee expressed ... Despite spending $700 million on dam fish passage equipment, NOAA Fisheries states ...