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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
U.S. Power Use to Beat Record Highs in 2026
& 2027 as Artificial Intelligence Use Surges, EIA Says (Reuters)
New Evidence Confirms Edison's Idle Line
Ignited Eaton Fire, Lawyers Say (Los Angeles Times, CA – Via MSN News)
Avista Confirms 'Large Load' Customer Is a Data
Center (KREM-TV, Spokane, WA)
Seattle City Council Unanimously Backs
Temporary Moratorium on New Data Centers (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
New WA Law Aims to Keep Minors Off E-Bikes
(KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/new-wa-law-e-bikes
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. U.S.
Power Use to Beat Record Highs in 2026 & 2027 as Artificial Intelligence
Use Surges, EIA Says
2. New
Evidence Confirms Edison's Idle Line Ignited Eaton Fire, Lawyers Say
3. Hoover
Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff
4. ‘You
Do Not Own the Airspace Above Your Property’: Idaho Power Drone Shot Near
Cascade
5. The
Public Now Backs Nuclear Energy. What Will It Take to Make It Happen?
6. FEMA
Reforms Must Be Tailored to Protect Co-ops, NRECA Tells Review Council
7. The
Northeast Has the Transmission. But Where’s the Power?
8. Solar
Power Hits New Milestones in the U.S. Even as Trump Boosts Coal Over Clean
Energy
9. WA
State: Avangrid Bags Contract to Power Microsoft in Klickitat County
10. Controversial
Plan to Kill Owls Is Underway in WA. Here’s Who’s Leading the Way
11. 27
Grey Whales Stranded in WA So Far This Year, Over 120 Along West Coast
12. Montana
Snowpack Rapidly Melted in May
13. One
in Two Americans Worry Artificial Intelligence Could Replace a Family Member's
Job
14. Avista
Confirms 'Large Load' Customer Is a Data Center
15. Seattle
City Council Unanimously Backs Temporary Moratorium on New Data Centers
16. Developers
Appeal Pocatello’s Denial of Proposed Artificial Intelligence Data Center
17. Data
Centers Are Surging. A WA Lab Has Advice on Making Them More Responsible
18. New
WA Law Aims to Keep Minors Off E-Bikes
19. News
Release: Washington’s Electric Vehicle Charging Network Expanding Thanks to $37
Million in Awards from Commerce
20. Triple-Digit
Temperatures Possible; Weekend Weather Could Break Portland’s Historical
Records
21. Meteorological
Roller Coaster – June Is an Interesting Weather Month in the Northwest.
22.
Guest Essay: Propaganda Won’t Change the Facts.
Idaho’s Salmon Are in Deep Trouble
Word of the Day
Debile /DEB-bill/ Adjective - Marked by debility: feeble.
Across the ochre dunes of Barsoom, even the debile glow of Thuria’s waning light seemed to falter before the proud stride of the Earth‑born wanderer, John Carter, whose shadow fell long and defiant upon the dead sea bottoms of a dying world.
Energy & Utility
Issues
1. U.S.
Power Use to Beat Record Highs in 2026 & 2027 as Artificial Intelligence Use
Surges, EIA Says (Reuters)
3. Hoover
Dam Approaches a Hydropower Cliff (Circle of Blue)
https://waterdesk.org/2026/06/hoover-dam-approaches-a-hydropower-cliff/
4. ‘You
Do Not Own the Airspace Above Your Property’: Idaho Power Drone Shot Near Cascade
(Valley Outlook, ID)
5. The
Public Now Backs Nuclear Energy. What Will It Take to Make It Happen? (Wall
Street Journal – Via MSN News)
6. FEMA
Reforms Must Be Tailored to Protect Co-ops, NRECA Tells Review Council
(National Rural Electric Cooperative Association)
https://www.electric.coop/fema-reforms-must-be-tailored-to-protect-co-ops-nreca-tells-review-council
7. The
Northeast Has the Transmission. But Where’s the Power? (Politico)
Renewable
Energy & Self Storage
8. Solar
Power Hits New Milestones in the U.S. Even as Trump Boosts Coal Over Clean
Energy (Associated Press)
9. WA
State: Avangrid Bags Contract to Power Microsoft in Klickitat County (Goldendale
Sentinel, WA)
Fish
& Wildlife
10. Controversial
Plan to Kill Owls Is Underway in WA. Here’s Who’s Leading the Way (Tacoma News-Tribune,
WA – Via Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/controversial-plan-kill-owls-underway-120000080.html
11. 27
Grey Whales Stranded in WA So Far This Year, Over 120 Along West Coast (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Water,
Water, Anywhere?
12. Montana
Snowpack Rapidly Melted in May (Daily Montanan)
https://dailymontanan.com/2026/06/09/montana-snowpack-rapidly-melted-in-may/
The
Wizarding World of Technology & Cybersecurity
13. One
in Two Americans Worry Artificial Intelligence Could Replace a Family Member's
Job (Times Now News)
HAL’s
Internet Café
14.
Avista Confirms 'Large Load' Customer Is a Data
Center (KREM-TV, Spokane, WA)
16. Developers
Appeal Pocatello’s Denial of Proposed Artificial Intelligence Data Center (KIVI-TV,
Nampa, ID)
https://www.kivitv.com/news/developers-appeal-pocatellos-denial-of-proposed-ai-data-center
17. Data
Centers Are Surging. A WA Lab Has Advice on Making Them More Responsible (Tri-City
Herald, WA – Via Yahoo! News)
https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/data-centers-surging-wa-lab-110000328.html
I
Sing the Car Electric
18.
New WA Law Aims to Keep Minors Off E-Bikes (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle, WA)
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/new-wa-law-e-bikes
19. News
Release: Washington’s Electric Vehicle Charging Network Expanding Thanks to $37
Million in Awards from Commerce (WA Dept. of Commerce)
https://www.commerce.wa.gov/washingtons-electric-vehicle-charging-network-expanding-thanks-to-37-million-in-awards-from-commerce/
Other
Things to Know About Today
20. Triple-Digit
Temperatures Possible; Weekend Weather Could Break Portland’s Historical
Records (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
21.
Meteorological Roller Coaster – June Is an Interesting
Weather Month in the Northwest. (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/06/meteorological-roller-coaster.html
Soapbox
Serenade – Vox Populi
22. Guest
Essay: Propaganda Won’t Change the Facts. Idaho’s Salmon Are in Deep Trouble
(Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID – Via Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/propoganda-won-t-change-facts-100000871.html
Diversions - Alligators in the Sewer
Nearly
$500,000 of Bourbon Stolen in Philadelphia Daytime Heist
A Dozen Giant
Trolls Heading to Washington State Zoo, Wildlife Park
Half-Red,
Half-Yellow Chimera Apple Draws Crowds at New Zealand Store
Pennsylvania Boy,
7, Puts on 50 Sweaters to Break World Record
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/06/10/Guinness-World-Records-most-sweaters/6831781107509/
Song of the Day
Willie Nelson -
Whiskey River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSTDgc7dbyc
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