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Molly Woodstock, Julia Silverman and Doug Badger join us for the news roundtable to give us opinions and analysis of some of the big stories of the week.
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A recent federal report indicates that hydroelectric dams on the lower Snake River are likely here to stay. This comes after Oregon Gov. Kate Brown endorsed removing the dams, a move conservationists say would help restore salmon and orca populations in the Northwest. Now that dam removal seems unlikely, utility companies, agricultural interests and environmentalists are coming together to ask what else could be done to save the salmon and the orca who feed on them. We talk with Lewis and Clark Law School professor Dan Rohlf, who has followed these issues for decades, about what’s next.
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Willamette University law professor Warren Binford is helping lead the effort to evaluate conditions for immigrant children, both in the U.S. and south of the border. She’s a nationally known and widely respected children’s rights advocate and directs the university’s Clinical Law Program. Binford has personally seen how children and families were being treated last year by the U.S. government and how the conditions have changed under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, also known as MPP, which stands for Migrant Protection Protocols. The Ninth Circuit Court has just ruled that the Trump Administration policy is unconstitutional, but the decision is limited. Warren Binford joins us to explain the ruling and tell us what children in the U.S. — and those who are waiting south of the border — are facing.
A young resident killer whale chases a chinook salmon in the Salish Sea near San Juan Island, Washington, in September 2017.
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