Clean air, affordable power and environmental mitigation: Northwest Power Act turns 40
- December 16, 2020
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Four decades ago, legislators and policymakers in the Pacific Northwest took a revolutionary leap of faith, writing a law that changed the direction of the region's energy future and made fish and wildlife co-equal with other purposes of hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin.