In a Congressional hearing held last week by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Brenda Mallory, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) nearly shouted at Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers R-WA that the Biden Administration was not planning to remove dams on the Lower Snake River. From our editorial perspective however, it seems that Chair Mallory may have thought she was playing a game of “two truths and a lie” rather than testifying before a congressional committee.
“For more than two years, the Biden administration worked behind closed doors with a select group to develop a secret package of actions and commitments that would temporarily settle litigation over the future of our river system,” said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., chair of the House Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
“CEQ cut a secret, back room deal to please radical environmentalists who are profiting from a campaign to tear out our dams,” McMorris Rodgers said. “You ignored the science, and the law, and there will be consequences for that.”
McMorris Rodgers recently joined Reps. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.; Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore.; Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho; and Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., in introducing the Defending Against Manipulative Negotiators Act (DAMN ACT) to prohibit federal funds from being used in breaching or altering the dams and to prohibit the implementation of the Columbia Basin Restoration Initiative.
Far West joined numerous other NW ag groups in writing letters of support for the Lower Snake dams and opposing any efforts to remove them or destroy their economic benefit to the residents of the Northwest.
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