June 7 in Seattle, a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a petition filed by the Northwest Resource Information Center challenging the Council’s Sixth Northwest Power Plan. The Council adopted the plan
Meacham Creek in the Umatilla River Basin, northeast Oregon
For more than a generation, the Pacific Northwest has been a leader in acquiring energy efficiency. Since 1978, the region has reduced electricity demand by more than 5,100 average megawatts, about half the region's load growth--more than enough
The Council this week begins a once-every-five-years process of reviewing the largest regional fish and wildlife program in the nation, one that last year paid for nearly
An assessment by the Council shows that the efficiency of electricity use continues to improve and that the region is on track to meet the Council’s goal to improve efficiency by 1,200 average megawatts in the five years between 2010
In a presentation to the Council today, Portland State University researchers who have been studying the potential for freshwater mussels to take hold in the Columbia River Basin say water chemistry and temperature are sufficient, if not ideal, to support
