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Last month, Idaho representative Mike Simpson unveiled a $34 billion plan to remove the four lower Snake River dams in eastern Washington. Many in the farming community say Simpson’s Energy & Salmon Concept will ruin farming since the dams allow for barge traffic between Lewiston and the Pacific. D ...

The fight over the Columbia and Snake Rivers dams continues back in D.C.  On Wednesday, eastern Washington’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers went before the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, and addressed the need to keep the dams as the U.S. strives...

The fight over the Columbia and Snake Rivers dams continues back in D.C.  On Wednesday, eastern Washington’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers went before the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, and addressed the need to keep the dams as the U.S. strives...

A recent study done by Seattle-based ECONorthwest claims removing the four lower Snake River dams exceeds the cost.  The study was done for another Seattle-based company, Vulcan Inc.  Vulcan oversees the business and philanthropic interests of Microsoft co-founder and former Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trailblazer owner, the late Paul Allen. The S...

The Washington Department of Ecology issued a proposal Tuesday allowing more water to spill over eight federal dams along the lower Columbia and Snake rivers.  Ecology says the move could help improve the survival of juvenile salmon migrating to the ocean, increasing the availability of food for the struggling Southern Resident orcas.  ...