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Challenging BPA’s Lack of Transparency over Ties to Salmon Research
December 30, 2022

Challenging BPA’s Lack of Transparency over Ties to Salmon Research

Advocates for the West recently filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit against the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to compel the agency to produce certain records as required by law. The records concern BPA’s relationship with Canadian research company Kintama Research Services. Over the last decade, BPA has funded Kintama’s research, including studies on the […]

Who Will Save our Wild Salmon and Steelhead?
September 5, 2018

Who Will Save our Wild Salmon and Steelhead?

Southern Resident Killer Whales are on the brink of extinction. Idaho’s sockeye salmon are on life support. The Clearwater River’s once famous wild B-run steelhead population is in a state of collapse. These are data-based facts, and anyone who denies them is ill informed, unable to accept reality, or running for re-election to Congress in […]