Slap tariffs on solar panels built in china, this after finding chinese companies are selling them here at below-market prices, but some say the tariffs may actually backfire and end up hurting many american businesses,. dan spring ser live in seattle with more. reporter: it was done by the brattle group, that says there could be a net loss of 1000 jobs in the u.s. if a tariff is slapped on chinese imports and that s because of the 100,000 jobs tied to the domestic solar industry, only 3 percent are in manufacturing. the vast majority are in engineering and installation. solar world, a german company that has a big plant outside of portland, in oregon, brought the complaint to the commerce department, the commerce department investigated, and it has ruled prelimnarily that chinese competitors are selling panels 31 percent below their cost, and it s allowed them to grab over half the u.s. market share. solar world is claiming victory over the tariff: it basically allows us to compet
Them to coexist. reporter: ranchers fear that the initial relocation is just the beginning and with good reason. big national conservation groups are raising money and buying land from ranchers in hopes of creating a 3 1/2 million acre wildlife reserve, loaded with buffalo and other animals, sort of a north american seregetti. bison are classified as livestock but the pure buffalo could be labeled a protected species and that could have far reaching combat on ranchers competing for the same prime grazing land, so a group sued. where does it stop, how widely are the bison going to spread, how much damage will they cause and what will be our forum for our interests to be protected? reporter: opponents got a judge to temporarily block future bison relocations until these issues can be worked out in court. jenna: we ll continue to wait and watch for more, dan, thank you very much, dan springer in seattle today. jon: as the supreme court weighs president obama s health care law, the w
Dozens of yellowstone bison into the state and now those buffaloes are roaming into a red hot controversy. dan spring ser live in seattle with more on this. dan. reporter: jenna, depending upon your perspective these bison with either a national icon or really big nuisance, the bison are direct descendents from the millions of buffalo that used to roam in the west before getting wiped out in the 1880s. there are only a few thousand left which makes mem worth more than the buffalo that have been raised as cattle and livestock. the bison lived in yellowstone national park but that is exactly where the wheat farmers and rafpblgers want them to say, saying bison break down the fences, destroy crop, eat hay, wreaking havoc on the cattle industry in montana. the governor says the conflict is overblown: in a hundred years, this herd will still only grow to a few thousand and we have 3 million cattle in montana. i think there s room for
In yellow stone park, dan spring ser live from seattle now, so dan, now some people are thinking there are too many wolves right now. yeah? reporter: and it is a growing debate arthel. great wolves came off the an dangered species list over a year ago but remain the most controversial species by far in the entire mountain west and yes, the majority of the west, politicians in idaho and wyoming say there are too many wolves. in idaho, there are about 1000. the federal government which turns over management of the species last year is requiring idaho to maintain a population of at least 150 wolves so the fish and game commission has been reducing the numbers by encouraging hunting of wolves, but that s not all. the governor wants the federal government to keep paying the state for all the wolves. it s had a large economic impact on us. and those folks that that want them here, ought to be the ones paying for them.
Was planning something but i had no idea he was going to do this. reporter: susan s parents had custody of the two kids, his attorney for the family said this, they were planning a civil suit, a wrongful death case, but they didn t want to interfere with the criminal case as they looked into the disappearance of susan. jenna: there aren t words for stories like this. horrible scenes. it doesn t even do it justice. dan, when we talk about susan, though, let s talk about this investigation, trying to find where she is or what happened to her. where does that stand in light of the latest developments? reporter: well, details came out yesterday, they immediately got on the plane and they are out here now, they say that that investigation is still very much open, they re trying to determine what happened to susan powell. but of course, the truth may have died with josh powell yesterday. still, they want answers. he was the only person of interest in this case, from the beginning. they