New measures aimed at restoring endangered salmon populations in the Columbia River Basin could cause downstream ...

LANSING, MI — Michigan’s top natural resources official warned that the proposed sale of Consumers Energy hydroelectric dams ...

Consumers’ director of engineering said in a filing that the company is not willing to renegotiate the proposed terms of the sale.

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In February 2024, it looked like nearly three decades of litigation over the operation of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia ...

LANSING, MI — Consumers Energy warned Michigan regulators that it may dismantle its fleet of aging hydroelectric dams if officials reject the utility’s controversial plan to sell them to a private ...

With rising temperatures intensifying precipitation and flood risks, water authorities are rethinking dam safety and ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...

A weeklong creek restoration effort in Borger is showing residents how small, hands-on projects could help protect the Texas Panhandle’s shrinking water supply.

Seattle City Light has proposed an agreement to continue to use hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River to power the city’s electricity for up to the next 50 years. But the full details of the ...