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Who Needs Grids?

by Josh Marshall
02.17.25 | 4:10 pm

The Bonneville Power Administration, the largest transmission grid operator in the Pacific Northwest, will be shedding at least 600 workers as part of President Trump’s budget slashing across the federal federal workforce.

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