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Companies are interested, but it could be complicated to develop lands with multiple layers of tribal, federal and even complex-science concerns

Four congress members listened to testimony about whether the four Lower Snake River dams should stay in place or be removed.

With the climate rapidly changing, researchers are trying to find ways to make clean energy developments less expensive and easier to build. For the Northwest, offshore wind power could play a critical role, but it also presents major challenges.

If U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is appointed the new head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she said she has big plans for the country’s energy landscape.

Climate change is hurting salmon in the Columbia River Basin. According to a draft report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there are several solutions, including breaching the four Lower Snake River dams.

Storing renewable energy is critical in the Northwest. A draft review for the region’s largest proposed energy storage project is available for public comment.

Breaching the dams would be the best way to remove Snake River salmon runs from the Endangered Species List and the best way to maintain treaty and trust obligations with tribes, according to the report. It could cost from $10.3 billion to $27.2 billion.

Four members of U.S. Congress got a close look at Washington’s Snake River dams.

Now’s the time to begin planning ways to replace Washington’s four Lower Snake River dams with a mix of renewable energy projects, according to a report released by the advocacy group NW Energy Coalition.

The federal government recently doled out two “green findings” to the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear reactor.The Columbia Generating Station, near…