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Energy
News Digest Word Cloud for January 24, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Simpson Lumber Company’s Mill 5 Is Target for
Reduction of 80 Employees (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
200
More Ideas for the President’s Climate Plan – Hey Look! Power Marketing
Administrations are on this list (Huffington Post)
Judge Rules Sandy River Hatchery Violates
Endangered Species Act (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Over
Heated Dissent, Ninth Circuit Rejects Rehearing in Low Carbon Fuel Standards
Challenge, Setting Up Possible Supreme Court Commerce Clause Showdown (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Why Princeton Researchers May be Wrong to Call
Facebook the Next MySpace (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- 200 More Ideas for the President’s Climate Plan – Hey Look! Power Marketing Administrations are on this list
- U-S Propane Shortage Affect Millions in Brutal Freeze
- City of Port Angeles Approves Electric Bill Assistance Program
- Nuclear Plants Look at 80 Years of Operation as Coal Sits On Sidelines
- Can Clean Energy Replace a Shuttered Nuke Plant in California?
- Public Power Utilities Focus on Customer Convenience, APPA Customer Service Survey Finds
- Salt River Project to Fund Planting of 4,100 Trees to Celebrate Cardinals’ 41 Touchdowns
- Judge Rules Sandy River Hatchery Violates Endangered Species Act
- Editorial: Hatchery Changes Coming - Ruling Gives Wild Salmon Higher Priority
- Washington State Repeals Permit on Geoduck Farm
- Project Will Re-Create a Historic Methow River Channel
- Teen Wants To Make a Difference by Pushing Bills for State Oyster
- Fishermen, Chefs, Cantwell Tell Obama: Kill Bristol Bay Mine
- Pacific County Residents Plug into Nature’s Outlets
- U-S Officials Launch Probes Sought by SolarWorld to Determine Whether Chinese Should Face More Tariffs
- Wind Permits Allowing Eagle Deaths Face Blowback
- In Kansas, Renewable Energy Standard Again Under Attack
- Coordination is California’s Least Cost Path to a Clean Energy Future
- An Untold Story: What the Nest Acquisition Means for Utilities
- Over Heated Dissent, Ninth Circuit Rejects Rehearing in Low Carbon Fuel Standards Challenge, Setting Up Possible Supreme Court Commerce Clause Showdown
- Washington State Climate Panel Divide: Cap-And-Trade vs. Nuclear Power
- Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change
- Northwest Energy Angels Change Name to Element 8
- Retrofitting Locomotives for Natural Gas Hybrid Getting Closer
- Environmental Protection Agency Considers Rolling Back 2013 Target for Advanced Biofuels
- The Cloud is Powered by Coal - And That’s a Good Thing
- Netflix Predicts Consumer Demand for Net Neutrality
- Why Princeton Researchers May be Wrong to Call Facebook the Next MySpace
- How Twitter Accounts Are the New Food Truck
- Spokane’s McMorris Rodgers to Give GOP Response to Obama Address
- Simpson Lumber Company’s Mill 5 Is Target for Reduction of 80 Employees
- Washington State Jobless Rate at 6.6 Percent; Lowest in Five Years
- Crews Fighting Winter Wildfires on Oregon Coast
- Wind: Whether You Call It ‘Coho’, ‘East’ or ‘Gorge’ Wind, It’s Likely Going to Blow Hard in the Winter
- Legal Marijuana Businesses Should Have Access to Banks, Holder Says
- Holy Porcelain Thrones Batman! - Parts That Can Cause Bursting Toilets Recalled
WORD OF THE DAY
Rife
• \RĪFE\ • Adjective - 1: prevalent especially to an increasing degree 2: abundant,
common 3: copiously supplied: abounding
My
nephew Joseph Clift is such an optimist. From his Facebook page: “…Hey dudes!
Just a heads up, your future is rife with potential!...”
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
200 More Ideas for the President’s Climate Plan –
Hey Look! Power Marketing Administrations are on this list (Huffington Post)
U-S Propane Shortage Affect Millions in Brutal
Freeze (Reuters)
City of Port Angeles Approves Electric Bill
Assistance Program (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Nuclear Plants Look at 80 Years of Operation as
Coal Sits On Sidelines (SNL Financial)
Can Clean Energy Replace a Shuttered Nuke Plant in
California? (Grist Online)
Public Power Utilities Focus on Customer Convenience,
APPA Customer Service Survey Finds (American Public Power Association)
Salt River Project to Fund Planting of 4,100
Trees to Celebrate Cardinals’ 41 Touchdowns (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Judge Rules Sandy River Hatchery Violates
Endangered Species Act (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Editorial: Hatchery Changes Coming - Ruling Gives
Wild Salmon Higher Priority (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Washington State Repeals Permit on Geoduck Farm (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Project Will Re-Create a Historic Methow River Channel
(Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
Teen Wants To Make a Difference by Pushing Bills for
State Oyster (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Fishermen,
Chefs, Cantwell Tell Obama: Kill Bristol Bay Mine (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Pacific
County Residents Plug into Nature’s Outlets - Things like large solar panel
arrays have become more common sights (Coast Business Journal, Astoria, OR)
http://www.crbizjournal.com/news/communications_electricity_and_utilities/pacific-county-residents-plug-into-nature-s-outlets/article_4ec68adc-8398-11e3-9cd8-001a4bcf887a.html
http://www.crbizjournal.com/news/communications_electricity_and_utilities/pacific-county-residents-plug-into-nature-s-outlets/article_4ec68adc-8398-11e3-9cd8-001a4bcf887a.html
U-S
Officials Launch Probes Sought by SolarWorld to Determine Whether Chinese Should
Face More Tariffs (Oregonian, Portland)
Wind
Permits Allowing Eagle Deaths Face Blowback (National Journal)
In
Kansas, Renewable Energy Standard Again Under Attack (Midwest Energy News)
Coordination
is California’s Least Cost Path to a Clean Energy Future (Renewable Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
An
Untold Story: What the Nest Acquisition Means for Utilities (GigaOM)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Over
Heated Dissent, Ninth Circuit Rejects Rehearing in Low Carbon Fuel Standards
Challenge, Setting Up Possible Supreme Court Commerce Clause Showdown (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
Washington
State Climate Panel Divide: Cap-And-Trade vs. Nuclear Power (Everett Herald,
WA)
Industry
Awakens to Threat of Climate Change (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Northwest
Energy Angels Change Name to Element 8 (Portland Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2014/01/northwest-energy-angels-change.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2014/01/northwest-energy-angels-change.html
Retrofitting
Locomotives for Natural Gas Hybrid Getting Closer (Associated Press)
Environmental
Protection Agency Considers Rolling Back 2013 Target for Advanced Biofuels (Forbes
Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The Cloud is Powered by Coal - And That’s a Good
Thing (Forbes Magazine)
Netflix Predicts Consumer Demand for Net Neutrality
(U-S News & World Report)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Why Princeton Researchers May be Wrong to Call Facebook
the Next MySpace (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
How Twitter Accounts Are the New Food Truck (Washington
Post)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Spokane’s McMorris Rodgers to Give GOP Response to Obama
Address (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
GENERAL NEWS
Simpson Lumber Company’s Mill 5 Is Target for
Reduction of 80 Employees (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Washington State Jobless Rate at 6.6 Percent;
Lowest in Five Years (Associated Press)
Crews Fighting Winter Wildfires on Oregon Coast
(KPTV-TV, Portland, OR)
Wind: Whether You Call It ‘Coho’, ‘East’ or ‘Gorge’
Wind, It’s Likely Going to Blow Hard in the Winter (Oregonian, Portland)
Legal Marijuana Businesses Should Have Access to
Banks, Holder Says (NY Times)
Holy Porcelain Thrones Batman! - Parts That Can
Cause Bursting Toilets Recalled (USA Today)
DIVERSIONS
Seattle
Couple Making Best of It after Their Wedding Falls on a Seahawks Super Bowl (ouch,
that must have hurt)
Ghost
Ship Crewed Only by Cannibal Rats Feared to be Heading for Scottish Coast (THIS
is a great headline…especially since its true!
Shocking
News: All Froot Loop Colors Are Really the Same Flavor
We’re
Just Shocked That it Took This Long for Someone to Create Beer-Flavored Jelly
Beans
SONG OF THE DAY
Can
you spot the connection with stories in today’s news digest?
Maureen
McGovern - The Morning After (From the movie “The Poseidon Adventure”)
Michael
Jackson – Ben (from the movie, “Ben”)
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