On July 11th, 2005, the Commission issued a new license for the Box Canyon Project on the Pend Oreille River in northeastern Washington and Idaho. The issuance brought a conclusion to the licensing phase of this project's extended history as a poster child for combative licensing processes. The license adopts mandatory conditions, including fish passage, submitted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Washington Department of Ecology, and the United States Forest Service.

Tennessee's only licensed hydropower project was granted another license today. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a new license for ALCOA's Tapoco project on the Little Tennessee River in North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued new 30-year licenses for five projects on the middle Snake River in Idaho on July 28, 2004. The new licenses were no longer held up by concerns over endangered species because the US. Fish and Wildlife Service entered into a settlement with project owner Idaho Power Company over post-license issuance studies and possible remedial actions. Typically, protection measures come before license issuance, not after.

Roseburg, OR-- Seven conservation groups today sued the federal government for issuing an environmentally damaging hydropower license for a hydroelectric project on the North Umpqua River.

On December 17th, FERC issued its first license for a project using the Integrated Licensing Process (ILP), Mystic Lake on West Rose Bud Creek in Montana. FERC # P-2301.

FERC issued its first ever hydrokinetic license to the 1 MW Makah Bay Project in Washington state on Dec 20.

Amidst a huge opposition to the proposed pumped storage project in the Bear Lake in Utah, FERC is holding a public meeting this Wednesday, April 9 in Fish Haven and Montpelier, Idaho.

On April 17, 2008 FERC issued a license that will allow Priest Rapids project on Columbia River to operate until 2052 AD.

Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah has refused to allow State Parks to grant an easement, thus delivering a hit to the proposed Hook Canyon project.

FERC has granted a 30-year license for operation of the Morgan Falls hydroelectric project located on the Chattahoochee River about 12 miles upstream of Atlanta, Georgia.