PM News: Judge Rejects Salmon Plan

A Chinook Salmon passes the viewing window in the visitor center at Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks, Ore. A federal judge in Oregon ruled today that the Obama administration’s attempt to make federal hydroelectric dams in the Northwest safer for protected salmon once again violates the Endangered Species Act. Story below. (AP file photo/Rick Bowmer, file)

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