Outdated dams — along with a willingness to ignore the rights and needs of tribal nations, environmental impacts and the reality of climate change — have created a crisis in the Columbia River system: heat pollution. It’s devastating salmon and the communities that depend on them, right now.
Heat pollution doesn’t belong in our rivers.
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