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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Judge Rules State Can’t Enforce Inslee Order to Cut
Greenhouse-Gas Emissions (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Pend Oreille Silicon Plant – HiTest Sand Offers to Pay $1
Million for Studies on Electrical Impact of Proposed Newport Smelter (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Bitcoin Operations Overwhelm Chelan County PUD with Requests
for Power (NCW Life Channel, East Wenatchee, WA)
Days after the FCC Repealed Its Net Neutrality Rules, the
GOP Has a Bill to Replace Them (Washington Post)
Op/Ed: Columbia River Barging Lets Idaho’s Grain Growers
Compete in the World Market (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Bitcoin Operations Overwhelm Chelan County PUD with Requests for Power
- Why the Bitcoin Craze Is Using Up So Much Energy
- What Does the Columbia River System Have to Do with Your Holiday Season?
- Orcas Power & Light Co-Op Bills Go Up in January – Average of $7
- Three California Gas Plants Could Be Replaced with Energy Storage
- Santee Cooper Gets a Potential Buyer from South Carolina
- New York: Canadian Hydro Can Be Part of State’s Clean Energy Mix
- Managers Defend Columbia River Pikeminnow Releases for Reward Program
- Chairman Invites Patagonia CEO to Testify Before House Committee on Natural Resources
- Op/Ed: Columbia River Barging Lets Idaho’s Grain Growers Compete in the World Market
- Pend Oreille Silicon Plant – HiTest Sand Offers to Pay $1 Million for Studies on Electrical Impact of Proposed Newport Smelter
- Judge Rules State Can’t Enforce Inslee Order to Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
- Days after the FCC Repealed Its Net Neutrality Rules, the GOP Has a Bill to Replace Them
- The Net Neutrality Lawsuits Are Coming. Here’s What They’re Likely to Say.
- Cell Phones Aren’t a Public Health Risk, No Matter What California Says
- Probe Sought in EPA’s ‘Media Monitoring’ Contract
- Tax Bill Moves to Senate after House Passage along Party Lines
- Congressional Agreement Keeps Tax Exemption for Municipal Bonds
- Washington State’s County Leaders Prepared to Sue over Unfunded Mandates
- Amtrak Train That Derailed Onto I-5 Was Reportedly Going 80 in a 30-Mph Zone, Officials Say
- Southbound I-5 near Train Derailment Area ‘Could Be Closed for Several Days’
- Nine File for Shelton City Council
- No Mariners FanFest in 2018: The Annual Event Will Go on a One-Year Hiatus
- Jose Cuervo Parent Firm Buys Pendleton Whisky
Brown Study • \BROWN – STUD-dee\ • Noun - A state of serious
absorption or abstraction
Darnell had been stuck in a brown study all afternoon. His
boss had given him what he had considered an unsolvable problem: “Put the lime
in the coconut,” or “Put the shama lama, ding dong back into my smile.” Darnell
knew it couldn’t be both.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Bitcoin Operations Overwhelm Chelan County PUD with Requests
for Power (NCW Life Channel, East Wenatchee, WA)
Why the Bitcoin Craze Is Using Up So Much Energy (Washington
Post)
What Does the Columbia River System Have to Do with Your
Holiday Season? (Bonneville Power Administration)
Orcas Power & Light Co-Op Bills Go Up in January –
Average of $7 (The Islands’ Sounder, Eastsound, WA)
Three California Gas Plants Could Be Replaced with Energy
Storage (Utility Dive)
Santee Cooper Gets a Potential Buyer from South Carolina (Charleston
Post & Courier, SC)
New York: Canadian Hydro Can Be Part of State’s Clean Energy
Mix (Albany Times-Union, NY)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Managers Defend Columbia River Pikeminnow Releases for
Reward Program (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOT LOCKER
Chairman Invites Patagonia CEO to Testify Before House
Committee on Natural Resources (U-S House Committee on Natural Resources)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Op/Ed: Columbia River Barging Lets Idaho’s Grain Growers
Compete in the World Market (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
Pend Oreille Silicon Plant – HiTest Sand Offers to Pay $1
Million for Studies on Electrical Impact of Proposed Newport Smelter (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Judge Rules State Can’t Enforce Inslee Order to Cut
Greenhouse-Gas Emissions (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Days after the FCC Repealed Its Net Neutrality Rules, the GOP
Has a Bill to Replace Them (Washington Post)
The Net Neutrality Lawsuits Are Coming. Here’s What They’re
Likely to Say. (Washington Post)
Cell Phones Aren’t a Public Health Risk, No Matter What California
Says (Popular Science)
PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING & MEDIA
Probe Sought in EPA’s ‘Media Monitoring’ Contract (Politico
Morning Energy)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Tax Bill Moves to Senate after House Passage along Party
Lines (NY Times)
Congressional Agreement Keeps Tax Exemption for Municipal
Bonds (American Public Power Association)
Washington State’s County Leaders Prepared to Sue over
Unfunded Mandates (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Amtrak Train That Derailed Onto I-5 Was Reportedly Going 80 in
a 30-Mph Zone, Officials Say (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Southbound I-5 near Train Derailment Area ‘Could Be Closed for
Several Days’ (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Nine File for Shelton City Council (Mason Web TV, Shelton,
WA)
No Mariners FanFest in 2018: The Annual Event Will Go on a One-Year
Hiatus (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Jose Cuervo Parent Firm Buys Pendleton Whisky (Associated
Press)
NEWSPEAK KNUCKLEHEADS – DIVERSIONS
‘Fake News’ Gains on ‘Whatever’ as Most Annoying Phrase
‘I Will Eat Mum on Christmas Day’: Grieving Daughter to
Sprinkle Mother’s Ashes on Turkey & Pudding Dinner
Rhode Island: Dead, Dried-Up Christmas Tree to Be Replaced at
Statehouse
Save ‘Star Wars’? Angry Fans Petition to Have ‘The Last Jedi’
Abandoned & Remade
SONG OF THE DAY
Rosemary Clooney – Sway
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