Steve Wright has been reappointed administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, a post he held in the Bush Administration and the Northwest's most important federal job.
But Wright's retention at the helm of the Portland-based power bureaucracy disappointed environmental groups and fisheries advocates, and opens a breach between greens and the Obama administration.
"Instead of 'Change We Can Believe In' we got change that didn't happen," said Bill Arthur of the Sierra Club.