New Report Finds Lower Snake River Dams Create Methane Emissions, Not Clean Energy
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VENTURA, Calif. — New science on the four Lower Snake River dams is in and it disproves claims that hydropower is clean energy.
A new report finds these dams are not a source of green, zero-carbon energy, but rather a major source of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases causing the climate crisis. Compounding the problem, dams submerge and destroy natural carbon sinks that once grew under their reservoirs.
For decades, politicians and various industry leaders have defended damming rivers by pointing to the climate benefits of allegedly clean hydropower. The new report, titled…
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