by Alabama Rivers Alliance | Feb 21, 2025
On February 19, Alabama Rivers Alliance, along with Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), filed our comments on the draft environmental impact statement for the Harris Dam relicensing on the Tallapoosa River advocating for improved flows, water quality...
by Idaho Rivers United | Jan 14, 2025
Lower Granite dam on the Snake River. Photo credit: IRU staff In December the federal government announced its intent to reexamine the impacts to imperiled salmon and steelhead populations from the fourteen-dam Federal Columbia River System, which includes the four...
by California Sportfishing Protection Alliance | Jan 1, 2025
On November 26, 2024, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance sued the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) over the “Incidental Take Permit” (ITP) for the operation of the State Water...
by California Sportfishing Protection Alliance | Nov 24, 2024
On November 19, 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a letter to PG&E about a major canal break and two canal blockages in 2023 at PG&E’s DeSabla-Centerville Hydroelectric Project on Butte Creek. The canal break had extremely damaging...
by Hydropower Reform Coalition | Nov 19, 2024
Enacted in 1978 to encourage greater use of domestic and renewable energy sources, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) allows the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to exempt certain small hydroelectric projects from its licensing requirements...
by South Yuba River Citizens League | Sep 25, 2024
On September 25th, the Nevada Irrigation District voted on the future of their proposed Centennial Dam project, a $1 billion project that SYRCL has rallied the community in opposition to since its inception. In August of 2014, the Nevada Irrigation District (NID)...
