Biden Administration Says BPA To Provide $200 Million Over 20 Years To Advance Salmon Reintroduction In Upper Columbia River Blocked Areas

September 22nd, 2023

The Biden administration this week announced that the Bonneville Power Administration will provide three Upper Columbia River Tribes $200 million over 20 years for ongoing efforts to reintroduce salmon above Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams, which have blocked fish migration since 1942. The Tribes have agreed to a twenty-year pause to existing litigation while these actions are pursued.

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Coho Salmon Disappearing From Urban Streams; Study Shows Biofiltering Stormwater Runoff Boosts Survival

September 7th, 2023

A relatively simple, inexpensive method of filtering urban stormwater runoff dramatically boosted survival of newly hatched coho salmon in an experimental study. That’s the good news for the threatened species from the Washington State University-led research. The bad news: unfiltered stormwater killed almost all of them.

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Conservation Groups Petition EPA To Update Toxic Pollutants List; Tribes Seek Ban On Tire Chemical Killing Salmon

August 10th, 2023

Two conservation groups submitted a formal legal petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging the federal agency to update its toxic pollutant list, something it hasn’t done for 47 years, the groups say. And three Northwest tribes have petitioned EPA to ban a chemical used in tires that is deadly to coho salmon.

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Citing Sockeye-Killing Warm Water, Groups To File Lawsuit Pushing For Breaching Of Lower Snake Dams

July 27th, 2023

Four conservation groups notified the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that they intend to sue the agency over the heat pollution created by the four lower Snake River dams. The groups allege the dams overheat the river’s water and those conditions are killing or injuring Snake River sockeye salmon listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.

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