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News Digest Word Cloud for September 23, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Biologists Try to Figure Out Large Fall Chinook
Runs (KUOW Radio, Seattle, WA)
Port Angeles’ Nippon Biomass Cogeneration Plant
Targets November 1 Start (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Editorial: It’s Time to Tweak Columbia River
Treaty (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Human Role in Warming of Pacific Northwest Played
Down (NY Times)
Simpson Lumber Company Explores Possible Sale
(News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Editorial: It’s Time to Tweak Columbia River Treaty
- Employee Survey Scorches Management at the Bonneville Power Administration
- Grays Harbor PUD to Celebrate Public Power Week
- Pacific Gas & Electric Ranks No. 1 in Smart Meter Deployments
- Illinois: Commonwealth Edison Must Pay $46 Million
- Will Pro-Nuclear Abe Government Overcome Japan’s Nuke Fears?
- A Nuclear Primer - It’s All About Uranium
- Biologists Try to Figure Out Large Fall Chinook Runs
- Shellfish Farmers: Willapa Bay Herbicides ‘Work Tremendously’
- Port Angeles’ Nippon Biomass Cogeneration Plant Targets November 1 Start
- Portland-Based Element Power Cancels Plans for Missouri’s Largest Wind Farm
- University of Washington’s Grid Gets Smart with Living Lab
- Breaking with Tradition, Philips Splits Off Lighting
- Human Role in Warming of Pacific Northwest Played Down
- California, Quebec to Hold First Joint Carbon Auction
- New Carbon Dioxide Emissions Report Shows China’s Central Role in Shaping World’s Climate Path
- Your Electric Car Isn’t Making California’s Air Any Cleaner
- What’s Next for Net Neutrality? Five Things We Learned from the Debate Ahead of the FCC’s Decision
- Google+ Was Never a Good Social Network. But It Didn’t Have to Be
- Threat to Tax-Exempt Bonds from Tax Reform is Still There, Attorney Tells Public Power Officials
- Google: We’re Parting with the Climate Change Skeptics at ALEC
- California Billionaire Tom Steyer Drops $1 Million on Washington State Elections
- Simpson Lumber Company Explores Possible Sale
- Simpson Lumber May Sell Longview Mill
- Our Summer Was Second Hottest Ever
- Marijuana Legalization Could Mean Millions in Tax Revenue for Florida, Alaska, & Others
Enthrall
• \in-THRAWL\ • verb - To hold spellbound: charm
Esther
sat enthralled in the darkened, cavernous concert hall, her mouth agape…her
unblinking eyes focused on the orchestra pit. She had never seen anyone play a
glockenspiel with the speed & focus shown by the diminutive musician
hammering away at the sparkling metal instrument.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Editorial: It’s Time to Tweak Columbia River Treaty
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Employee Survey Scorches Management at the Bonneville
Power Administration (Oregonian, Portland)
Grays Harbor PUD to Celebrate Public Power Week (KBKW
Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Pacific Gas & Electric Ranks No. 1 in Smart
Meter Deployments (PG&E Currents)
Illinois: Commonwealth Edison Must Pay $46 Million (Courthouse News Service)
Will Pro-Nuclear Abe Government Overcome Japan’s Nuke
Fears? (Christian Science Monitor)
A Nuclear Primer - It’s All About Uranium (Forbes
Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Biologists Try to
Figure Out Large Fall Chinook Runs (KUOW Radio, Seattle, WA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Shellfish
Farmers: Willapa Bay Herbicides ‘Work Tremendously’ (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Port
Angeles’ Nippon Biomass Cogeneration Plant Targets November 1 Start (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Portland-Based
Element Power Cancels Plans for Missouri’s Largest Wind Farm (Oregonian, Portland)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
University
of Washington’s Grid Gets Smart with Living Lab (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Breaking
with Tradition, Philips Splits Off Lighting (Reuters)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Human
Role in Warming of Pacific Northwest Played Down (NY
Times)
California,
Quebec to Hold First Joint Carbon Auction (Sacramento Bee,
CA)
New
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Report Shows China’s Central Role in Shaping World’s
Climate Path (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Your
Electric Car Isn’t Making California’s Air Any Cleaner (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
What’s Next for Net Neutrality? Five Things We
Learned from the Debate Ahead of the FCC’s Decision (GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Google+ Was Never a Good Social Network. But It
Didn’t Have to Be (Washington Post)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Threat to Tax-Exempt Bonds from Tax Reform is Still
There, Attorney Tells Public Power Officials (American Public Power
Association)
Google: We’re Parting with the Climate Change
Skeptics at ALEC (Washington Post)
California Billionaire Tom Steyer Drops $1 Million on
Washington State Elections (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
GENERAL NEWS
Simpson Lumber Company Explores Possible Sale (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Simpson Lumber May Sell Longview Mill (Longview Daily News, WA)
Our Summer Was Second Hottest Ever (Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
WA)
Marijuana Legalization Could Mean Millions in Tax
Revenue for Florida, Alaska, & Others (Christian Science Monitor)
DIVERSIONS
You
Won’t Get Through Airport Security with 58 Bricks of Pot, 2 Guns & 350 Rounds
of Ammo, FYI
Google
Street View is Blurring the Faces of Ancient Gods
Mysterious
Radar Cloud Over the Midwest Was Actually... Butterflies
Portland
Police Protect & Serve Pizza after Crash
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Alan Parsons Project - In the Lap of the Gods
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