Dam Relicensing

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Tom Verde reports on the fight over the relicensing of many of the country’s hydroelectric dams. Two hundred and thirty dams are up for Federal relicensing this year. Environmentalists have seized on recent legislation in asking Federal regulators to look more closely at the ecological impact of dams.

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