U.S. House Republicans halt plans to breach WA's Snake River dams

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https://crosscut.com/environment/2023/04/us-house-republicans-halt-plans-breach-was-snake-river-dams

U.S. House Republicans halt plans to breach WA's Snake River dams

Previous plans to help endangered salmon by removing four dams are likely on hold with Republicans in the majority.
by Nicholas K. Geranios / April 3, 2023

When Democrats won control of the White House and Congress in the 2020 elections, efforts to breach four dams on Washington’s Snake River to save endangered salmon moved onto the federal fast track.

But 2022’s Republican takeover of the House seems to have put a stop sign in front of those efforts.

On March 23, Washington’s two Republican representatives, U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse, introduced a bill to save the dams. Their Democratic colleagues from Washington were leading the charge in the other direction before the 2022 election. Sens. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Steve Daines, R-Montana, have introduced the same dam protection bill in the Senate.

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Salmon -- the icon of the Pacific Northwest -- are facing an extinction crisis, and need a restored lower Snake River,” tribal chairman Samuel Penney said in a news release last year. “The subsidized services provided by the four dams that have turned the Snake into a lake can be replaced.”
The tribe has sued the federal government over its 2020 salmon plan.
Environmental groups contend salmon are economically valuable in their own right, and also are a key food for declining orca populations in the Pacific Ocean.

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(No more smoked salmon brunches for you gops.)

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1. Assholes.

We've been trying to get this done for at least 30 years.