Trump has withdrawn the U.S. government from an agreement to restore native fish being decimated by hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin.

President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the U.S. out of an agreement with Washington, Oregon and four American Indian tribes to work together to restore salmon populations and boost tribal energy development in the Pacific Northwest,

The president said the move will protect hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. Environmental groups, state officials and tribes say he scrapped a settlement