Judge orders protective measures for Columbia River salmon after Trump canceled historic deal
A federal judge in Oregon has ordered dams that operate on the Columbia and Snake rivers to generate less hydropower and allow more water to pass in an effort to keep salmon populations from dying out.
The order largely restores measures that were in place under a landmark deal to protect salmon that the Trump administration canceled last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon on Wednesday granted many of the changes that environmental advocates, tribes and the states of Oregon and Washington sought in their decades-long lawsuit over the federal government’s operation of dams on the Columbia and its largest tributary, the Snake.
Simon wrote that his orders weren’t exactly what they wanted, but “generally represent an effort to address the problems.”
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/26/judge-orders-protective-measures-for-columbia-river-salmon-after-trump-canceled-historic-deal/
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