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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Major Earthquake Hits Off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
(Reuters)
Money
Men Tally Cost of Climate Change (Associated
Press)
Army
Corps of Engineers Disputes Pend Oreille Alliance Claims (Bonner County Daily
Bee, Sandpoint, ID)
Crowded Rails in U-S Coal Country Throw Miners, Utilities
Out of Gear (Reuters)
Facebook May Not Have a Teen Problem After All
(Mashable)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Crowded Rails in U-S Coal Country Throw Miners, Utilities Out of Gear
- From Smart to Resilient: How Utilities Are Using New Technology to Protect the Grid
- Seattle City Light Leader Fell for ‘Indian’ Copper Con
- News Release - Six GTH Energy & Environmental Named Washington “Super Lawyers”
- Grays Harbor PUD Receives 14th Consecutive Clean Audit
- Struggling to Pay Your Power Bill? Snohomish PUD Has Options
- Electric Utilities Keep on Current Consolidation Path
- Eugene Bee Die-Off Leads to License Suspension for Pesticide Sprayer
- Army Corps of Engineers Disputes Pend Oreille Alliance Claims
- Army Corps of Engineers Deny Causing Missouri River Floods
- British Columbia: Foreign Worker Permits for Conifex Power Plant Raise Questions
- Colorado: New Hydropower Could Ease Transition from Fossil Fuels
- Texas: The Renewable, Green Energy State
- EPA Adds Clothes Dryers to Energy Star Program
- Map: The Age of Housing in Every Zip Code in the U-S
- Money Men Tally Cost of Climate Change
- Though Rebuked for Overreaching, the EPA Prevails Before the Supreme Court
- Google’s Nest Labs Acquires Home Surveillance Company Dropcam
- Nest Labs Joins Race to Define Platform for the Internet of Things
- Congress to Tackle Merger of AT&T & DirecTV
- Cloud Storage Wars: Microsoft, Google, & Others Want Your Digital Stuff
- Facebook May Not Have a Teen Problem After All
- Twitter Testing Ways to Add Commentary to Retweets
- Is Time Spent A Better Metric than Pageviews?
- Major Earthquake Hits Off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
- Lawsuit Filed Against North Mason Schools over Theler & Public Records
- City of Shelton - Canyon Creek Culvert Replacement to Impact Northcliff Road
- Mount Rainier Hiker, Writer Karen Sykes Died of Hypothermia, Officials Say
- Tank Explosion Produces More Noise than Damage at Terrace Heights Recycling Plant
- El Niño 2014: What It Is, When It’s Coming, & What to Expect
- As Wars Wind Down, Small-Town Police Inherit Armored Vehicles
Gaffer
• \GAFF-er\ • noun 1: an old man 2: British a: foreman, overseer b: employer 3:
a head glassblower *4: a lighting electrician on a motion-picture or television
set.
The
Orcs of Cirith Ungol quailed before the onslaught of Samwise Gamgee: ‘That’s
for Frodo - that’s for the Shire - and that’s for my old Gaffer!’
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Crowded Rails in U-S Coal Country Throw Miners,
Utilities Out of Gear (Reuters)
From Smart to Resilient: How Utilities Are Using
New Technology to Protect the Grid (GreenTech Grid)
Seattle City Light Leader Fell for ‘Indian’ Copper
Con (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
News Release - Six GTH Energy & Environmental
Named Washington “Super Lawyers” (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Grays Harbor PUD Receives 14th Consecutive Clean
Audit (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Struggling to Pay Your Power Bill? Snohomish PUD Has
Options (My Edmonds News, WA)
Electric Utilities Keep on Current Consolidation
Path (National Public Radio)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Eugene Bee Die-Off Leads to License Suspension for
Pesticide Sprayer (Sustainable Business Oregon)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Army
Corps of Engineers Disputes Pend Oreille Alliance Claims (Bonner County Daily
Bee, Sandpoint, ID)
Army
Corps of Engineers Deny Causing Missouri River Floods (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
British
Columbia: Foreign Worker Permits for Conifex Power Plant Raise Questions (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Colorado:
New Hydropower Could Ease Transition from Fossil Fuels (Boulder Weekly, CO)
Texas:
The Renewable, Green Energy State (Community Digital News)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
EPA
Adds Clothes Dryers to Energy Star Program (American Public Power Association)
Map:
The Age of Housing in Every Zip Code in the U-S (Washington Post)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Money
Men Tally Cost of Climate Change (Associated
Press)
Though
Rebuked for Overreaching, the EPA Prevails Before the Supreme Court (Forbes
Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google’s Nest Labs Acquires Home Surveillance
Company Dropcam (Bloomberg News)
Nest Labs Joins Race to Define Platform for the
Internet of Things (NY Times)
Congress to Tackle Merger of AT&T & DirecTV
(NY Times)
Cloud Storage Wars: Microsoft, Google, & Others
Want Your Digital Stuff (Christian Science Monitor)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook May Not Have a Teen Problem After All
(Mashable)
Twitter Testing Ways to Add Commentary to Retweets
(Mashable)
Is Time Spent A Better Metric than Pageviews? (GigaOM)
GENERAL NEWS
Major Earthquake Hits Off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
(Reuters)
Lawsuit Filed Against North Mason Schools over
Theler & Public Records (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
City of Shelton - Canyon Creek Culvert Replacement
to Impact Northcliff Road (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Mount Rainier Hiker, Writer Karen Sykes Died of
Hypothermia, Officials Say (Associated Press)
Tank Explosion Produces More Noise than Damage at Terrace
Heights Recycling Plant (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
El Niño 2014: What It Is, When It’s Coming, & What
to Expect (Christian Science Monitor)
As Wars Wind Down, Small-Town Police Inherit
Armored Vehicles (Yahoo! News)
DIVERSIONS
14
Highly Intellectual Jokes You Probably Won’t Understand
‘Joyland’
Mixup: Why a Canadian is Spending Stephen King Cash
San
Francisco Tells App to Stop Auctions of Parking Spaces
Oregon:
Police: DUI Suspect Crashes Stolen Model A in Crooked River
SONG OF THE DAY
Charles
Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Love Land
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