Trump Administration intervenes in PG&E dam controversy

Opponents of a plan to remove two Pacific Gas & Electric Co. dams from the Eel River in Lake and Mendocino counties have gained a powerful ally: the Trump administration.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins filed a notice Friday to intervene in the utility’s bid to decommission its waterworks in the rural area. The structures include a century-old power plant that helps divert Eel River water into irrigation canals that support Potter Valley in Mendocino County and dump into the upper Russian River.