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Stanford negotiator discusses compromise on environmental conflicts like Klamath dams
The biggest dam removal in US history is happening now on the Klamath river. Dan Reicher discusses how the Uncommon Dialogue approach relates to this dam removal.
How the Hydro Industry and Environmental Groups Found Common Ground
Uncommon Dialogue convened hydropower, environmental, and tribal advocates, helping them find common ground on hydro-development projects.
Is hydropower good or bad for the environment? We went to Idaho to find out
An unusual coalition has grown out of a dialogue convened at Stanford University.
Why you should give a damn about America’s dams
This summer’s unprecedented floods across the U.S. highlight how a massive piece of infrastructure — the nation’s 90,000-plus dams — can play the role of hero or villain in these climate-enhanced calamities.
Giving old dams new life could spark an energy boom
The Washington Post reports on the work of Uncommon Dialogue participants to retrofit nonpowered dams.
Watershed Moment
Dams help us. Dams harm us. Now, longtime adversaries are coming together to bridge that uncomfortable divide.
Tribes, Industry Groups Reach Deal to Boost U.S. Hydroelectric Power
The Wall Street Journal reports on an agreement reached through the Uncommon Dialogue on hydropower and river conservation with tribes and industry and environmental groups.
How hydroelectric dams fit into the U.S. energy portfolio
Dan Reicher joins WBUR's Here & Now to discuss hydroelectric dams, which provide 7% of the U.S. energy portfolio.
The dam plan that works for everyone
Sarah Golden at GreenBiz discusses the Uncommon Dialogue and its potential impacts on the future of the nation's dams.
Improve or Remove: Funding for U.S. Dams
$2.3 billion to improve or remove U.S. dams included in new federal infrastructure bill in wake of a Stanford Uncommon Dialogue agreement.
Can hydropower help solve the climate crisis?
LA Times reports on $63-billion proposal for dam safety, rehabilitation and removal, federal agency support, and clean energy production.
Stanford’s Dan Reicher on new agreement on U.S. hydropower and river conservation
Q&A with Dan Reicher, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment - Stanford News Service
Environmentalists and dam operators, at war for years, start making peace
Facing a climate crisis, environmental groups and industry agree to work together to bolster hydropower while reducing harm from dams.
Balancing healthy rivers and hydropower
Message from William Robert (Bob) Irvin, President of American Rivers, on new agreement.
A new uncommon collaboration on U.S. hydropower
Message from Malcolm Woolf, President and CEO of the National Hydropower Association, on new agreement.
Hydropower making sustainability gains with fish-safe turbines
The hydro industry has set an example of working collaboratively to maintain renewable energy production while improving environmental outcomes.
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Defining Community Is Slippery on the Eel River
Communities along the Eel River support the removal of two aging dams but many complexities prohibit them from going through with the process.