The Council is pleased that new federal energy-efficiency standards for air conditioners and furnaces, issued in June, account for regional differences in energy use. It’s the first time standards for those appliances have taken a regional approach since they first
A decade-long research study in which a variety of sea animals were tagged and tracked beneath the Pacific ocean has unveiled fresh insight into a world that has remained largely hidden and unknown.The Washington Post's story and The New York
According to NOAA's Northwest River Forecast Center's official June forecast, the April to August runoff at the Dalles Dam is now 126 MAF, or 135 percent of the 30-year (1971-2001) average. That's a lot of water set to flow through
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Most of us have heard of the smart grid and have some sort of hazy understanding of it as moving the power grid into the digital age. Technologies that automatically communicate usage data to power providers make it possible to
A recent consumer survey by EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency in the energy sector, found that two-thirds of Americans feel that phasing out traditional incandescent light bulbs and replacing them with energy-efficient lights is a good idea. A majority of
The Council is pleased to comment on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’ white paper on a clean energy standard. In particular, the Council is responding to the question of energy efficiency’s role in a standard, which we believe
The Council today recommended 100 projects, some new and some ongoing, to improve scientific knowledge about fish and wildlife throughout the Columbia River Basin. The projects are part of the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program and would
The Council's Executive Director Steve Crow responds to an Oregonian op ed: In his March 20 commentary in The Oregonian, Steven Hawley gets his facts wrong about the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's Sixth Northwest Power Plan. Hawley
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation unveiled the first-of-its-kind boat wash decontamination system in a recent demonstration at the Boise, Idaho office of the Bureau of Reclamation. The tribes purchased the system to protect their waters from
