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On Thursday, the Washington State Wine Commission announced the cancelation of Taste Washington. The four-day festival was scheduled for March 19th through the 22nd in Seattle. The downtown event has taken place every year since 1998. T ...

On Friday, the Federal government released its draft Environmental Impact Study, looking at the four lower Snake River dams. That draft found removing the dams would not be a good idea, creating economic and environmental problems for the region ...

On Thursday, Eastern Washington’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers asked the EPA to look into Puget Sound pollution.  McMorris Rodgers said during a Thursday hearing that it’s not the Snake River dams that are the problem when it comes to the Puget Sound orcas, but rather western Washington.  She said Gover...

Environmentalists and Washington Governor Jay Inslee say removing the four lower Snake River dams would benefit salmon and other wildlife that call that waterway home.  And while the state recently conducted a study looking at the economic impact to Central and Eastern Washington if those dams are removed, some in Olympia say western Washington take some of its own advice.  ...

EPA’s final WOTUS-replacement rule is being well-received by farm interests.  The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association was one of many farm and industry groups that strongly opposed the original 2015 Obama era Waters of the U.S. Rule for its ...

The window to make comments on a study looking at the economic impact of removing the four lower Snake River Dams will close soon.  Throughout this month, the Lower Snake River Stakeholders presented the findings of their study during workshops in Clarkston, Vancouver and the Tri-Cities.  St...

The 2020 Washington legislative session got underway Monday in Olympia.  For senator Mark Schoesler, a Ritzville area wheat farmer, he said his push this short session when it comes to agriculture is “do no harm”   He said he’s concerned that several proposals and ideas will have a negative impact on rural Washingtonians.  For example, he pointed o...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s Snake River Dams stakeholder consultant team will hold its third of three public information workshops in the Tri-Cities Monday.  The event will allow those from the Columbia Basin and surrounding area to get a first glimpse of the report, focused on the economic impact to region if the four lower Snake River dams were removed.   B...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s office released the Draft of a New Study that looks at the economic and overall impact of removing the four lower Snake River dams.  The draft does not say if the dams should remain or be removed, but rather took the input an options of nearly 100 stakeholders including farmers, environmentalists, fishermen and shippers.   T...

Because of the Columbia-Snake River EAS litigation, the study looking at the economic impact of removing the four lower Snake River dams, local irrigators have responded.  Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association has developed a Risk Mitigation Response Alternative to protect assets from adverse economic impacts caused by dam breaching and project pool draw downs.  CS...