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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Chance of Snow for Monday Night Seahawks Game (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Op/Ed: Future Generations Deserve Our Thoughtful
Consideration of Columbia River Treaty (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Renewable-Energy
Subsidy Twists in Political Winds (Salem Statesman-Journal, OR)
Vestas
Hopes to Bring Wind Power to World (NY Times)
Government
Underestimates Methane Emissions by 50 Percent (U-S News & World Report)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Op/Ed: Future Generations Deserve Our Thoughtful Consideration of Columbia River Treaty
- Tennessee Valley Authority’s Business Strategy Evolving
- Nuclear Waste Burial Debate Produces Odd Alliances
- Seattle Seeks Proposals for Summer-Winter Power Exchange
- Scientists Unraveling Mystery of Orcas in Race to Save Them
- Renewable-Energy Subsidy Twists in Political Winds
- Vestas Hopes to Bring Wind Power to World
- Pumped Storage in the Spotlight
- Maine: First Wind Grows by Aiming Low
- Bill Preserves Ohio Renewable Energy Targets
- Government Underestimates Methane Emissions by 50 Percent
- Recycled Glass Actually Taken to Oregon Landfills
- NSA May Have Penetrated Internet Cable Links
- Intel Looks to Unload Its Nascent Web TV Division for $500 Million
- Bayers: Time to Retire Term ‘Cloud Computing’
- Government Accountability Office: More Oversight Needed at National Labs
- Chance of Snow for Monday Night Seahawks Game
- Kelso Couple (One a Cowlitz PUD Employee) Helps Rescue Men After Boat Sinks in Columbia River
- DuPont Issues Temporary Occupancy Permit for Amazon Distribution Center
- Four-Inch Mistake Forces Taxpayers to Pick Up Expensive Tab
- Christmas Tree Arrives in Washington, D-C From Washington State
WORD OF THE DAY
Brachiate
• \BRAY-kee-ayt\ • Verb - To progress by swinging from hold to hold by the arms.
Kids
on the playground
Brachiate
from bar to bar
Don’t
fall! Lawyers watch
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Op/Ed: Future Generations Deserve Our Thoughtful
Consideration of Columbia River Treaty (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Tennessee Valley Authority’s Business Strategy
Evolving (Energy Biz)
Nuclear Waste Burial Debate Produces Odd
Alliances (Associated Press)
Seattle Seeks Proposals for Summer-Winter Power
Exchange (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Scientists
Unraveling Mystery of Orcas in Race to Save Them (KOMO TV, Seattle, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Renewable-Energy
Subsidy Twists in Political Winds (Salem Statesman-Journal, OR)
Vestas
Hopes to Bring Wind Power to World (NY Times)
Pumped
Storage in the Spotlight (Renewable Energy World)
Maine:
First Wind Grows by Aiming Low (Boston Globe, MA)
Bill
Preserves Ohio Renewable Energy Targets (Associated Press)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Government
Underestimates Methane Emissions by 50 Percent (U-S News & World Report)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Recycled
Glass Actually Taken to Oregon Landfills (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NSA May Have Penetrated Internet Cable Links (NY
Times)
Intel Looks to Unload Its Nascent Web TV Division for
$500 Million (Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
Bayers: Time to Retire Term ‘Cloud Computing’ (USA
Today)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Government Accountability Office: More Oversight
Needed at National Labs (Tri-City Herald, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Chance of Snow for Monday Night Seahawks Game (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Kelso Couple (One a Cowlitz PUD Employee) Helps
Rescue Men After Boat Sinks in Columbia River (Longview
Daily News, WA)
DuPont Issues Temporary Occupancy Permit for Amazon
Distribution Center (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Four-Inch Mistake Forces Taxpayers to Pick Up
Expensive Tab (KOMO TV, Seattle, WA)
Christmas Tree Arrives in Washington, D-C From Washington
State (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
‘Maltese
Falcon’ Figure Sells for More than $4 Million
Thieves
Walk Away with More than $30,000 of Ice Wine from Okanagan Winery
Australian
Family Set Christmas Lights Record
Stoned
Ghost Hunters Torch Historic Mansion
SONG OF THE DAY
Manfred Mann's Earth Band- Blinded by the
Light
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