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Wild fish populations in the Columbia Basin are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction.

At least half a million say ‘No’ in initial round of public comment

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups today filed this motion to set a court schedule along with a motion requesting the U.S. District Court in Oregon end a multi-year pause on the groups’ long-running litigation to protect endangered Columbia Basin wild salmon and steelhead from federal dams that kill and harm them.

The Trump Administration’s unilateral withdrawal from a historic agreement forces plaintiffs back to court to protect salmon and steelhead from lethal dams

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice today filed a motion requesting the U.S. District Court in Oregon end a multi-year pause on the groups’ long-running litigation to protect endangered Columbia Basin wild salmon and steelhead from federal dams that kill and harm them.

Let’s celebrate this year’s environmental victories, plan to continue our work in the Columbia Basin — and prepare for next year!

This letter from 65 businesses and organizations on behalf of millions of members and supporters voices strong opposition to H.R. 2073, the “Defending our Dams Act.” This destructive legislation would block a decades-long, region-wide effort to restore struggling wild salmon and orca populations, address energy issues in the region and modernize outdated Northwest infrastructure.

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

The Puget Soundkeeper victory is critical first step to address long-standing pollution from municipal wastewater that degrade water quality in Puget Sound

Nonprofit groups are suing to force a review of the decision by BPA that would cause energy bills to rise and reduce access to clean energy across a broad region

BPA plans to join the Markets+ energy market over a larger Western one; the choice would cause a spike in energy bills and reduce access to clean energy for Northwest power customers

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

The Trump administration’s decision to abandon the agreement continues the administration’s pattern of breaking promises, ignoring science, and devaluing our iconic lands and wildlife.

The administration’s decision reneges on promised investments in fisheries and clean energy, and ignores federal, state, tribal science on the need for urgent action to prevent extinction and rebuild healthy and abundant salmon

The U.S. District Court in Alaska orders the mine’s permitting agencies to take a more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by revising the project’s environmental study