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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Feds
Slap Tariffs on Chinese Wind Towers (Forbes Magazine)
Garbage
Generates Electricity - County, Kootenai Electric Co-op Unveil New Energy Plant
(Coeur d’Alene Press, ID)
Fishermen versus Sea Lions - Humane Society Sues
to Protect Sea Lions (Epoch Times)
California,
Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington, and Colorado Lead the Nation in Clean-Energy
Leadership (MarketWatch)
FERC-NERC Staff Report on Northeast Transmission
Outage Stresses Vegetation Management (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission –
Links to PDF File)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- FERC-NERC Staff Report on Northeast Transmission Outage Stresses Vegetation Management
- US Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week
- Op/Ed - Thurston County Public Power Campaign about Systemic Change
- Consumer-Owned Utilities Hold Their Own in Emissions Reductions, Study Finds
- Florida - Funeral Is Today for Ocala Lineman Timothy Beard
- Fishermen versus Sea Lions - Humane Society Sues to Protect Sea Lions
- Ending Puget Sound’s Bad Acid Trip
- Feds Slap Tariffs on Chinese Wind Towers
- Garbage Generates Electricity - County, Kootenai Electric Co-op Unveil New Energy Plant
- California Poised to Require 'Solar Ready Roofs' on New Homes & Buildings
- What Electric Grid Operators Want: Good Wind Energy Forecasts
- Grid Realities Cancel Out Some of Wind Power's Carbon Savings
- US Treasury Pays For Part of $11.8 Million Boeing Solar Roof
- State Commission Reviews Idaho Power’s Energy Efficiency Programs
- And the Winning Energy Efficiency App Is…
- Study Accuses Corporations of Hypocrisy on Climate Change
- Top US Companies Shelling Out to Block Action on Climate Change
- Scientists Suspect Thunderstorms as a Climate Culprit
- California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington, and Colorado Lead the Nation in Clean-Energy Leadership
- Washington State Electric Car Chargers Turned on for I-5 & Highway 2
- Colorado - Strike Up the Broadband! Remote Towns Cheer Coming Upgrades
- Here’s What Our Web Addiction Looks Like in 2016
- World Powers Play Blame Game with Flame Virus
- Judge Rules Eyman Tax Initiative Unconstitutional
- Washington Supreme Court Upholds Liquor Initiative
- Henry M. Jackson: Everett's Humble Giant
- Judge Rules against Alt-Weekly in Public Notice Case
- Prosecutors: Drug Money the Motive for Shelton Double Murder
- Two Best Friends, a Bellevue Mom, 2 Others Die in Seattle Shootings
- Cherry Point Refinery Back Online; Will Gas Prices Dip?
- In Tacoma, Liquor Hoarded Amid Price Worries
- Mason County Forest Festival This Weekend
WORD OF THE DAY
Fugacious
• \fyoo-GAY-shush\ • Adjective - Lasting a short time: evanescent
Drop
the mail and run. The company’s transient messenger service was as fugacious as
flatulence in a windstorm: in one location for a very short time before
disappearing.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
FERC-NERC Staff Report on Northeast Transmission
Outage Stresses Vegetation Management (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission –
Links to PDF File)
US Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week (Associated
Press)
Op/Ed - Thurston County Public Power Campaign about
Systemic Change (Olympian, WA)
Consumer-Owned Utilities Hold Their Own in
Emissions Reductions, Study Finds (American Public Power Association)
Florida - Funeral Is Today for Ocala Lineman Timothy
Beard (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Fishermen versus Sea Lions - Humane Society Sues to
Protect Sea Lions (Epoch Times)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Ending
Puget Sound’s Bad Acid Trip (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Feds
Slap Tariffs on Chinese Wind Towers (Forbes Magazine)
Garbage
Generates Electricity - County, Kootenai Electric Co-op Unveil New Energy Plant
(Coeur d’Alene Press, ID)
California
Poised to Require 'Solar Ready Roofs' on New Homes & Buildings (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
What
Electric Grid Operators Want: Good Wind Energy Forecasts (Forbes Magazine)
Grid
Realities Cancel Out Some of Wind Power's Carbon Savings (R&D Magazine)
US
Treasury Pays For Part of $11.8 Million Boeing Solar Roof (Charleston Post &
Courier, SC)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
State Commission Reviews Idaho Power’s Energy
Efficiency Programs (Twin Falls Times-News, ID)
And the Winning Energy Efficiency App Is… (NY
Times)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Study
Accuses Corporations of Hypocrisy on Climate Change (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Top
US Companies Shelling Out to Block Action on Climate Change (The Guardian, UK)
Scientists
Suspect Thunderstorms as a Climate Culprit (USA Today)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
California,
Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington, and Colorado Lead the Nation in Clean-Energy
Leadership (MarketWatch)
Washington
State Electric Car Chargers Turned on for I-5 & Highway 2 (Seattle Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Colorado - Strike Up the Broadband! Remote Towns
Cheer Coming Upgrades (Pueblo Chieftain, CO)
http://www.chieftain.com/business/strike-up-the-broadband/article_b8519b30-aac9-11e1-88b5-001a4bcf887a.html
http://www.chieftain.com/business/strike-up-the-broadband/article_b8519b30-aac9-11e1-88b5-001a4bcf887a.html
Here’s What Our Web Addiction Looks Like in 2016 (GigaOM)
World Powers Play Blame Game with Flame Virus (US
News & World Report)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Judge Rules Eyman Tax Initiative Unconstitutional (Associated
Press)
Washington Supreme Court Upholds Liquor Initiative (Associated
Press)
Henry M. Jackson: Everett's Humble Giant (Everett
Herald, WA)
Judge Rules against Alt-Weekly in Public Notice
Case (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
GENERAL NEWS
Prosecutors: Drug Money the Motive for Shelton Double
Murder (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Two Best Friends, a Bellevue Mom, 2 Others Die in Seattle
Shootings (Seattle Times)
Cherry Point Refinery Back Online; Will Gas Prices
Dip? (Northwest Cable News)
In Tacoma, Liquor Hoarded Amid Price Worries (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Mason County Forest Festival This Weekend (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Angry Birds Theme Park to Open in Finland
Romney Campaign App Carries Typo in Word America
Cleveland Waitress Receives Huge IRS Refund Check by
Mistake
Peter Carl Fabergé: How Communism Crushed the Fabergé
Egg
SONG OF THE DAY
Sarah
McLachlan - Blackbird
The
Beatles - Blackbird
