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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Federal Government
Shutdown Begins, With No Easy Exit in Sight (News from the States)
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/federal-government-shutdown-begins-no-easy-exit-sight
Utilities &
Telecoms Turn to WA Lawmakers for Help as Copper Wire Theft Surges (Washington
State Standard)
Pacific Gas &
Electric Unveils $73 Billion Spending Plan to Meet Surging Data-Center Energy
Demand (Reuters)
Tesla Quarterly
Deliveries Set for Boost from Expiring EV Credit in U.S. (Reuters)
Artificial
Intelligence ‘Workslop’ Is Plaguing American Companies, Says Stanford Research
(PC Magazine)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-workslop-is-plaguing-american-companies-says-stanford-research
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Utilities
& Telecoms Turn to WA Lawmakers for Help as Copper Wire Theft Surges
2. Trump
Administration Opens More Land for Coal Mining, Offers $625 Million to Boost
Coal-Fired Power Plants
3. Relicensing:
U.S. Hydropower Is at a Make-Or-Break Moment
4. Millions
of Californians to Get Utility Bill Refunds. Here’s When & How Much
5. Congressmen
Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Reform Siting, Permitting for Transmission Lines
6. Pacific
Gas & Electric Unveils $73 Billion Spending Plan to Meet Surging
Data-Center Energy Demand
7. U.S.
to See $350 Billion Nuclear Boom to Power Artificial Intelligence, Report Says
8. U.S.
Takes a Stake in Another Company, This One Is Operating a Massive Lithium Mine
in Nevada
9. Sierra
Nevada’s Glaciers Will Soon Be Gone
10. Swiss
Glaciers Shrank 3% This Year, The Fourth-Biggest Retreat on Record, Experts Say
11. Defendants
in Oregon Data Center Case Say State Waited Too Long to Object to Insider Deal
12. FCC
Removes School Bus Wi-Fi, Hotspots from E-Rate
13. AOL’s
Dial Up Internet Takes Its Last Bow, Marking the End of an Era
14. Tesla
Quarterly Deliveries Set for Boost from Expiring EV Credit in U.S.
15. The
Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Is Done. Now What?
16. Artificial
Intelligence ‘Workslop’ Is Plaguing American Companies, Says Stanford Research
17. Five
Steps to Find Balance Between the Madness & Magic of Artificial
Intelligence
18. Geomagnetic
Storm Hits Earth, Officials Warned To ‘Mitigate’ Possible Impacts
19. Federal
Government Shutdown Begins, With No Easy Exit in Sight
20. What
Happens Now That a Government Shutdown Is Underway
21.
Pacific Northwest Braces for Wetter Fall as NOAA
Predicts 71% Chance of Weak La Niña
Word of the Day
Credulous \KRED-juh-luss\ Adjective - 1: ready to believe, especially on slight or uncertain evidence.
“Remember,” admonished the Italian tour guide to his wide-eyed, credulous American flock, “Rolex watches are NOT sold on the streets of Naples, nor are they made in China.”
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Utilities & Telecoms Turn to WA Lawmakers for
Help as Copper Wire Theft Surges (Washington State Standard)
2.
Trump Administration Opens More Land for Coal
Mining, Offers $625 Million to Boost Coal-Fired Power Plants (Associated Press)
3.
Relicensing: U.S. Hydropower Is at a Make-Or-Break
Moment (Canary Media)
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/hydropower/us-aging-dams-relicensing-clean-energy
4.
Millions of Californians to Get Utility Bill
Refunds. Here’s When & How Much (San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA – Via MSN News)
5.
Congressmen Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Reform Siting,
Permitting for Transmission Lines (Daily Energy Insider)
I Robot - Artificial
Intelligence
6.
Pacific Gas & Electric Unveils $73 Billion
Spending Plan to Meet Surging Data-Center Energy Demand (Reuters)
7.
U.S. to See $350 Billion Nuclear Boom to Power Artificial
Intelligence, Report Says (Bloomberg News)
Renewable Energy &
Self Storage
8.
U.S. Takes a Stake in Another Company, This One
Is Operating a Massive Lithium Mine in Nevada (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-china-lithium-gm-doe-nevada-d76ca97db7573c4dcc4a35c2f117caf7
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
9.
Sierra Nevada’s Glaciers Will Soon Be Gone (Courthouse
News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/sierra-nevadas-glaciers-will-soon-be-gone/
10.
Swiss Glaciers Shrank 3% This Year, The
Fourth-Biggest Retreat on Record, Experts Say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-glaciers-global-warming-994f227b545cfa87c2357aa1cb4f2d6d
London Calling
–Telecommunications
11.
Defendants in Oregon Data Center Case Say State
Waited Too Long to Object to Insider Deal (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
12.
FCC Removes School Bus Wi-Fi, Hotspots from E-Rate
(Yahoo! Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fcc-removes-school-bus-wi-103642342.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
13.
AOL’s Dial Up Internet Takes Its Last Bow,
Marking the End of an Era (Vancouver Columbian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
I Sing the Car Electric
14.
Tesla Quarterly Deliveries Set for Boost from Expiring
EV Credit in U.S. (Reuters)
15.
The Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Is Done. Now What?
(Politico)
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
16.
Artificial Intelligence ‘Workslop’ Is Plaguing
American Companies, Says Stanford Research (PC Magazine)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-workslop-is-plaguing-american-companies-says-stanford-research
17.
Five Steps to Find Balance Between the Madness &
Magic of Artificial Intelligence (Pioneer Utility Resources)
https://www.pioneerutilityresources.com/2025aiworkshop/
Barrel O’ Green
Potpourri – Seething Stew of Science
18.
Geomagnetic Storm Hits Earth, Officials Warned
To ‘Mitigate’ Possible Impacts (WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN)
Politics, Governance,
and Management
19.
Federal Government Shutdown Begins, With No Easy
Exit in Sight (News from the States)
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/federal-government-shutdown-begins-no-easy-exit-sight
20.
What Happens Now That a Government Shutdown Is Underway
(Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-chuck-schumer-20e54a0f5e4fee909d0f9ea2c07c15e1
Other Things to Know
About Today
21.
Pacific Northwest Braces for Wetter Fall as NOAA
Predicts 71% Chance of Weak La Niña (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
Diversions - Alligators in the Sewer
Jane Goodall, Who
Transformed Understanding of Humankind by Studying Chimpanzees, Dies at 91
Thieves Steal $1 Million
Worth of Craft Whiskey from Washington Distillery
Scarred &
Broken-Jawed, ‘32 Chunk’ Is 2025’s ‘Fat Bear Week’ Winner
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/scarred-broken-jawed-32-chunk-063909724.html
A Postman, His
Family, And a Chair: Van Gogh Museum’s Surprising Reunion Exhibition
Song of the Day
Willie Nelson -
Whiskey River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTDgc7dbyc
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