Idaho’s U.S. Sen. Frank Church wrote BPA’s rulebook. It demands reliable power, too.

Frank Church’s conservation legacy deserves respect. But the federal law that Frank Church and his U.S. Senate colleagues passed — the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 — does not ask the region to choose salmon over reliable power. It requires an “adequate, efficient, economical, and reliable” power supply, alongside fish […]