Bonneville Power Administration layoffs could impact data centers, union leader says
Amid the Trump administration's efforts to purge the federal workforce, "mass firings" at the Bonneville Power Administration are creating concerns for future energy projects and data center growth in the Pacific Northwest.
WA’s leaders blast Trump’s ‘dangerous’ cuts to Bonneville Power Administration’s staff
By cutting the Bonneville Power Administration, President Trump is increasing the risk of blackouts in our region,” Gov. Bob Ferguson said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “This is dangerous.”
30 Bonneville Power Administration workers get jobs back amid hundreds of layoffs and buyouts
After an uproar over staffing cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration, the Trump administration is trying to rehire a handful of staffers it laid off last week.
Trump admin backpedals on public power staffing cuts
The layoffs at the Bonneville Power Administration and other public power agencies raised concerns of increased blackouts in the western U.S.
Bonneville Power staffing cuts increase odds of power outage
The staffing cuts and layoffs at BPA have fueled worries for many in the Northwest that the heat and lights could go out. The possibility of that happening is greater than it was before, former
Bonneville Power Administration reverses 30 job cuts, continues with plans to eliminate 430 positions
Roughly 130 of BPA’s more than 3,000 employees were told they’d been dismissed last week, as part of large-scale job cuts initiated by the Trump administration. But 30 of those workers were later deemed critical to BPA’s core work to manage power across the Pacific Northwest,
Bonneville Power Administration brings back some federal employees after mass layoffs
About 30 of the more than 100 employees fired over the weekend were told they'd be keeping their jobs after all.
Jefferson Public Radio7d
Bonneville Power staff departures under President Trump raise concerns about Northwest electrical grid
Losing a large chunk of its highly trained workforce will hinder the agency’s ability to perform core functions, the BPA ...
KGW87d
Mass layoffs at Bonneville Power Administration raise concerns about reliability of power grid
The Portland-based Bonneville Power Administration could lose nearly ... chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs A former administrator of the BPA warned that the ...
'Concerned about our democracy': Protesters rally in Northeast Portland against federal mass layoffs, firings
From the Bonneville Power Administration to the National Forest Service, federal cuts are impacting Oregonians.
Dam Employee Firings Threaten Power Disruptions in Northwest
West Coast states and members of Congress worry that mass federal employee firings at Bureau of Reclamation dams and at the ...
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...
Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere
The Trump administration layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford, NOAA, the Bonneville Power ...
Haphazardness of federal layoffs causes concern with Sen. Murray, Public Power Council
Washington Senator Patty Murray is criticizing the Donald Trump administration’s process of laying-off federal workers at the ...