Protect U.S. hydropower on the Northwest’s Snake River

President Biden’s radical green agenda is an assault on Americans’ way of life, especially in Western states. The most recent target: The four lower Snake River dams in southeastern Washington that provide clean, reliable energy to thousands of homes and businesses across the Northwest.

In a flagrant demonstration of hypocrisy, the Biden administration wants to remove this clean energy infrastructure under the guise of environmentalism. This is more than a blatant contradiction to the administration’s efforts to harness and expand hydropower, which U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm referred to as “a critical renewable energy source that will help [the Biden administration] reach [its] climate goals.” This is an effort to kill clean power while touting the need for more clean power—it does not add up.

Biden’s own Department of Energy has demonstrated there is no viable alternative in terms of clean energy technology or cost. From cities along the coast to the most remote areas of Idaho and Montana, these dams can rapidly increase production regardless of temperature, weather conditions, or time of day, and produce dispatchable, clean energy. Beyond energy production, the dams provide substantial benefits, including port access as far inland as Idaho and inward to states without direct access to the river.