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Agency throws curveball in largest U.S. dam demolition plan

by Associated Press
| July 18, 2020 12:03 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday threw a significant curveball at a coalition that has been planning for years to demolish four massive hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon populations that have dwindled to almost nothing.

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