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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear down Dams
- Okanogan PUD Hires Team to Remove Fire Dangers near Poles
- Tree Cutting Costs Farmers - BPA buzzes through hazelnut orchards
- Metal Theft Bill Clears Oregon House
- NorthWestern Energy Adds Hybrid Bucket Truck
- Alternate Gas Routes Studied In Eastern Oregon
- Cantwell - Senate Panel Hands FERC 'Cease and Desist' Power for Gas, Electricity Markets
- Chesapeake Energy: McClendon Mum On Lawsuits Over $75M Bonus
- Stalled Clean Coal Plant Moving Ahead In Illinois
- Wrongful Death Suit Filed In Fatal Water Heater Explosion
- Into the Breach - Unlikely voices call for a more inclusive approach to resolving the Snake River’s dam vs. salmon conundrum
- Lower Columbia River Opens Again After Delay
- Coho Salmon Season Set for Oregon Coastal Rivers
- Dead Fish in Lake Washington Prompt Concern
- State Approves Water Right for Large Eastern Washington Feedlot
- Obama Turns Out To Be Not So Much a Friend of the Environment
- Oregon - Hybrid Car Tax Break May Fade Away
- Nation's Largest Solar Plant to Be Built In New Mexico
- Atlanta Startup Turns Human Waste into Fuel
- Eating Your Own Dog Food: Congress Will Run Project on Saving Electricity
- Tacoma Building So Green It Needs To Be Mowed
- North Carolina - Duke Reaches Save-A-Watt Settlement
- Solid-State Lighting is a Bright Idea for Energy Efficiency, Study Says
- Agricultural Panel Jeopardizes Climate Bill
- Agriculture Carbon Offsets - Savior or a Boondoggle?
- Congress - GOP Charges Markey with Climate Witness Intimidation
- Clever Cap and Trade Primer - Where's My Carbon Credit, Dude?
- Stations Turn Off Analog Signals as Digital TV Deadline Arrives
- GAO On Broadband: Please Listen To Us. For Once. Please.
- Broadband Confession: I Have Pipe Envy
- Microsoft to Sell Windows minus Browser in Europe
- Yahoo Names New CFO, Fills Void Left By Shake-Up
- Twitter Helps Dell Rake in Sales
- Study Says Belfair Bypass Is Top Priority on Highway 3 Corridor
- Science Publication Says Mount St. Helens May Sit On "Supervolcano"
- Oregonian Op/Ed - What Ever Happened To Those 'Green' Jobs?
- Ride Out the Recession in Olympia
- Hanford Digs Up Radioactive Wasp Nests
- Olympia: Legendary KGY Broadcaster Got His Wish
WORD OF THE DAY
Glutinous • \GLUTE-tin-uss\ • adjective – Having the quality of glue: gummy; sticky
“The key to eating rice with chopsticks is the rice itself,” the cook breathlessly whispered to the apprentice chef. “If you cook it just right, it will result in a slightly glutinous mass, which makes it easy to pick up the bowl and start shoveling chunks of tasty rice into your pie-hole.”
WEATHER
Shelton Forecast and Weather Alerts
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/mapclick.php?textfield1=47.213805&textfield2=-123.113412&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=shelton%2c%20wa%2c%20usa
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear down Dams (NY Times, surprisingly more balanced than the headline implies)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/business/energy-environment/12bonneville.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Okanogan PUD Hires Team to Remove Fire Dangers near Poles (Omak Chronicle, WA)
http://www.omakchronicle.com/nws/n090611a.shtml
Tree Cutting Costs Farmers - BPA buzzes through hazelnut orchards to clear right-of-way (Capital Press)
http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=67&SubSectionID=618&ArticleID=52003&TM=64607.3
Metal Theft Bill Clears Oregon House (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2064957~Metal_theft_bill_clears_Ore__House.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
NorthWestern Energy Adds Hybrid Bucket Truck (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/11/financial/f191109D77.DTL&feed=rss.business
Alternate Gas Routes Studied In Eastern Oregon (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2063296~Alternate_gas_routes_studied_in_Eastern_Oregon.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Cantwell - Senate Panel Hands FERC 'Cease and Desist' Power for Gas, Electricity Markets (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/12/12greenwire-senate-panel-hands-ferc-cease-and-desist-power-74482.html
Chesapeake Energy: McClendon Mum On Lawsuits Over $75M Bonus - The chief executive is under fire for taking a $75 million bonus while the company was losing billions (Associated Press)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009331585_apuschesapeakemeeting.html?syndication=rss
Stalled Clean Coal Plant Moving Ahead In Illinois (Associated Press)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/06/12/financial/f071856D24.DTL&feed=rss.business
Wrongful Death Suit Filed In Fatal Water Heater Explosion (Wisconsin State Journal, Madison)
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/454621
FISH & WILDLIFE
Into the Breach - Unlikely voices call for a more inclusive approach to resolving the Snake River’s dam vs. salmon conundrum (The Inlander, Spokesman Review’s Weekly, Spokane, WA)
http://www.inlander.com/content/newscommentary_mike_crapo_and_jim_risch_snake_river_dams
Lower Columbia River Opens Again After Delay - Small run of spring Chinook salmon put opening on hold (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090612/OUTDOORS/906120332/1034/SPORTS/Lower-Columbia-River-opens-again-after-delay
Coho Salmon Season Set for Oregon Coastal Rivers (Examiner.com)
http://www.examiner.com/a-2064804~Coho_salmon_season_set_for_Ore__coastal_rivers.html?cid=rss-Oregon_Headlines
Dead Fish in Lake Washington Prompt Concern (KING-TV, Seattle)
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_061109WAB-stickleback-KS.6fb5e042.html?rss
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
State Approves Water Right for Large Eastern Washington Feedlot (Associated Press)
http://www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/878436.html
Examiner Columnist - Obama Turns Out To Be Not So Much a Friend of the Environment
http://www.examiner.com/x-5908-Boston-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Obama-turns-out-to-be-not-so-much-a-friend-of-the-environment
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Oregon - Hybrid Car Tax Break May Fade Away (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1244775306167300.xml&coll=7
Nation's Largest Solar Plant to Be Built In New Mexico (Associated Press)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gOVUnTb2J7yKCIVSfCfWRZtHOF_QD98OQFU81
Atlanta Startup Turns Human Waste into Fuel (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/smallBusinessNews/idUSTRE55B3UU20090612
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Eating Your Own Dog Food: Congress Will Run Project on Saving Electricity (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061102978.html?wprss=rss_politics
Tacoma Building So Green It Needs To Be Mowed (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/776124.html
North Carolina - Duke Reaches Save-A-Watt Settlement (Charlotte Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/06/08/daily51.html
Solid-State Lighting is a Bright Idea for Energy Efficiency, Study Says (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/gwmBuildings/idUS178093055120090611
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Agricultural Panel Jeopardizes Climate Bill - Lawmakers threatened to derail controversial legislation to combat climate change unless it does more to support forestry and farming interests (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/11/MNP0185SB3.DTL&feed=rss.news
Agriculture Carbon Offsets - Savior or a Boondoggle? (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/06/12/12climatewire-agriculture-offsets----a-savior-or-a-boondog-33517.html
Congress - GOP Charges Markey with Climate Witness Intimidation (The Hill)
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-charges-markey-with-climate-witness-intimidation-2009-06-11.html
Clever Cap and Trade Primer - Where's My Carbon Credit, Dude? (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105285865
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Stations Turn Off Analog Signals as Digital TV Deadline Arrives (NY Times)
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/stations-turn-off-analog-signals-as-digital-tv-deadline-arrives/?partner=rss&emc=rss
GAO On Broadband: Please Listen To Us. For Once. Please. - Government waste agency wants clear goals (duh) for broadband (Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/GAO-On-Broadband-Please-Listen-To-Us-For-Once-Please-102891
Broadband Confession: I Have Pipe Envy (GigaOM)
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/11/broadband-confession-i-have-pipe-envy/
Microsoft to Sell Windows minus Browser in Europe (Associated Press)
http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=10519030
Yahoo Names New CFO, Fills Void Left By Shake-Up (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12570906
Twitter Helps Dell Rake in Sales (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE55B0NU20090612?feedType=nl&feedName=usmorningdigest
GENERAL NEWS
Study Says Belfair Bypass Is Top Priority on Highway 3 Corridor (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/jun/11/study-says-belfair-bypass-is-top-priority-on-3/?partner=RSS
Science Publication Says Mount St. Helens May Sit On "Supervolcano" (The Oregonian)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/science_publication_says_mount.html
Oregonian Op/Ed - What Ever Happened To Those 'Green' Jobs?
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/06/what_ever_happened_to_those_gr.html
Ride Out the Recession in Olympia (KIRO Radio, Seattle)
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=177803
Hanford Digs Up Radioactive Wasp Nests (Associated Press)
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/47890677.html
Olympia: Legendary KGY Broadcaster Got His Wish - Dick Pust has been a part of KGY for more than half its history (The Olympian, WA)
http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/879075.html
DIVERSIONS
City of New York Investigating Bar Mitzvah Held in Jail
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/nyregion/12jail.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Filming the Flight of a Winged Maple Seed
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/science/16obseed.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Chimps Made Honorary Citizens of Cle Elum
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_061109ANB-cle-elum-chimps-KS.6f3cbbf8.html?rss
Obama Writes Girl a Note for Missing School
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009328636_apusobamanote.html?syndication=rss
SONG OF THE DAY
Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia (Backdoor shout out to Stephen Colbert)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPSvEkQl8Q
Friday, June 12, 2009
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