Alejandro Moreno

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2016, file photo, a chinook salmon, below, and a steelhead, above, move through the fish ladder at the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River in Washington state. A long-awaited federal report out Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, rejected the idea of removing four hydroelectric dams on a major Pacific Northwest river in a last-ditch effort to save more than a dozen species of threatened or endangered salmon, saying such a dramatic approach would destabilize the power grid, increase overall greenhouse emissions and more than double the risk of regional power outages. (Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review via AP, File)

More power, less harm to wildlife

Dams and hydro power stations might be crucial but they can harm the nearby fish. The Dept. of Energy wants to address that.

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