Biden Receives Criticism After Sharing He Is Willing to Take Down Clean Energy Source

President Joe Biden landed himself in hot water among critics after revealing he would be willing to take down a clean energy source.

According to Fox News, Biden said during a conservation event Tuesday he is committed to working with tribes, Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) to protect a salmon species in the Columbia River system.

The report noted salmon populations have decreased in the lower Snake River which runs through Idaho and southwestern Washington before running into the Columbia River which then leads to the Pacific Ocean.

Murray and Cantwell have reportedly been open to proposals to bust four dams that are federally managed in the river system, per Fox News.

Additionally, Simpson established a $33.5 billion tribe-endorsed framework to breach the four dams.

Experts are not thrilled with Biden’s willingness to work with the tribes and lawmakers.

“There are several major problems with glibly saying ‘we’re going to destroy the dams,'” Todd Myers, environmental director for think tank Washington Policy Center, told Fox News.

He added, “The first is that it is contrary to the science. The Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA Fisheries and others did the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the dams ever a few years ago. And it concluded very clearly that we should keep the dams and that salmon can recover with the dams.”

Myers argued the Biden administration is “going against the most comprehensive scientific assessment done by the federal government itself.”

He is also a member of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council.