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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP STORIES
All Washington State
Counties ‘Will Probably Not’ Reopen June 1, State Says (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Columbia Generating
Station Steps Up to Ease Bonneville Power Administration Oversupply (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Dams Central Focus
of Willamette River Endangered Fish Dispute in Oregon (Courthouse News Service)
Boeing Cutting More
Than 12,000 Jobs with Layoffs, Buyouts (Everett Herald, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (See Stories Below)
1.
Columbia Generating Station Steps Up to Ease
Bonneville Power Administration Oversupply
2.
The Risk to Beneficial Electrification:
Residential Demand Charges
3.
Cowlitz PUD in Healthy Financial Position
Despite Pandemic
4.
Additional LIHEAP Funding Urged for Struggling
Families as Senate Considers More COVID-19 Relief
5.
Op/Ed: The Michigan Dam Failures Are a Warning
6.
Dams Central Focus of Willamette River
Endangered Fish Dispute in Oregon
7.
Idaho: Governor’s Workgroup on Salmon Recovery
to Meet Today, Thursday
8.
Judge Strikes Down Energy Leasing Rules in Sage
Grouse Habitat
9.
Residents Warned to Avoid Olympia’s Percival
Creek, Other Areas After Another Sewage Spill
10. Landfills
Emerge as Promising Battery Storage Sites to Back Up Renewable Energy
11. GE
Selling Century-Old Lighting Unit to Savant Systems
12. President
Trump Threatens Social Media After Twitter Fact-Checks Him
13. Fill-In
Judge for Lawsuit Against Gov. Inslee Tests Positive for COVID-19
14. All
Washington State Counties ‘Will Probably Not’ Reopen June 1, State Says
15. COVID-19
Transmission Increasing in Eastern Washington, Dropping in Western Washington,
Report Says
16. Boeing
Cutting More Than 12,000 Jobs with Layoffs, Buyouts
17. Mason
County Unemployment Up Ten Percentage Points
18. Woman
Shot in Head After Exchanging Gunfire with Trooper Near Chehalis
19. An
‘Avalanche of Evictions’ Could Be Bearing Down on America’s Renters
20. Lynn
Eaton Appointed to Shelton School Board
21.
Chehalis Tribe First in the Nation to Open A
Distillery on Tribal Land
WORD OF THE DAY
Longueur /lawn-GUR/ Noun
– Dull & tedious passage or section (as of a book, play, or musical
composition) — usually used in plural
The coded BBC
broadcast that gave the warning of the D-Day attack to France “Blessent mon
coeur d’une longueur monotone”
(Translation: The
violins of autumn, wound my heart with monotonous languor”)
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
1.
Columbia Generating Station Steps Up to Ease Bonneville
Power Administration Oversupply (Bonneville Power Administration)
2.
The Risk to Beneficial Electrification:
Residential Demand Charges (Utility Dive)
3.
Cowlitz PUD in Healthy Financial Position
Despite Pandemic (Longview Daily News, WA)
4.
Additional LIHEAP Funding Urged for Struggling
Families as Senate Considers More COVID-19 Relief (Daily Energy Insider)
5.
Op/Ed: The Michigan Dam Failures Are a Warning –
Many need repairs. Let’s fix them before climate-related flooding gets worse. (NY
Times)
FISH & WILDLIFE
6.
Dams Central Focus of Willamette River Endangered
Fish Dispute in Oregon (Courthouse News Service)
7.
Idaho: Governor’s Workgroup on Salmon Recovery to
Meet Today, Thursday (Idaho Falls Post-Register, ID)
8.
Judge Strikes Down Energy Leasing Rules in Sage
Grouse Habitat (Associated Press)
ENVIRONMENTAL AFFLATUS – CLEAN UP ON AISLE
THREE
9.
Residents Warned to Avoid Olympia’s Percival
Creek, Other Areas After Another Sewage Spill (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
10.
Landfills Emerge as Promising Battery Storage
Sites to Back Up Renewable Energy (Utility Dive)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
11.
GE Selling Century-Old Lighting Unit to Savant
Systems (Associated Press)
PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING & MEDIA
12.
President Trump Threatens Social Media After Twitter
Fact-Checks Him (Associated Press)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
13.
Fill-In Judge for Lawsuit Against Gov. Inslee Tests
Positive for COVID-19 (KIRO News, Seattle, WA)
SICKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
14.
All Washington State Counties ‘Will Probably Not’
Reopen June 1, State Says (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
15.
COVID-19 Transmission Increasing in Eastern
Washington, Dropping in Western Washington, Report Says (Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
WA)
GENERAL NEWS
16.
Boeing Cutting More Than 12,000 Jobs with
Layoffs, Buyouts (Everett Herald, WA)
17.
Mason County Unemployment Up Ten Percentage
Points (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
18.
Woman Shot in Head After Exchanging Gunfire with
Trooper Near Chehalis (Associated Press)
19.
An ‘Avalanche of Evictions’ Could Be Bearing
Down on America’s Renters (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
20.
Lynn Eaton Appointed to Shelton School Board
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
21.
Chehalis Tribe First in the Nation to Open A
Distillery on Tribal Land (KOMO News, Seattle, WA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Mask Fairies Give
Away More Face Coverings in Port Angeles
Burger King Modifies
Cardboard Crowns to Encourage Social Distancing
Purple Jellyfish ‘Bigger
Than All Three of Our Kids’ Washes Up on Beach
Car Wash Worker
Returns Stimulus Check Discovered in Trash
SONG OF THE DAY
Tears for Fears – Everybody
Wants to Rule the World
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