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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Pacific Northwest Snow-Pack Gains Back 2% from Weekend
Storm (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)
Idaho Legislature Opposes Snake Dam Removal
(Idaho Mountain Express, Ketchum)
Idaho to Join Handful of States That Charge Electric Car
Owners Extra (Northwest Public Radio)
Editorial:
Even Kitzhaber Official Knew Carbon Tax Would Cut Emissions Little (Oregonian,
Portland)
Public
Power Council Applauds Congressional Call for Columbia River Treaty
Negotiations (Public Power Council, Portland, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Public Power Council Applauds Congressional Call for Columbia River Treaty Negotiations
- PacifiCorp Explores Joining California Energy Grid Group
- Snohomish PUD Taps Anne Spangler, General Counsel, To Be Interim Manager
- Update: Power Restored in Spokane Valley
- Klamath Falls Power Outage Linked to Animal Interference at Substation
- California Judge Won’t Take San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Case
- Michigan Hearing Pits Utilities against Consumer Advocates in Deregulation Battle
- That Canadian Energy - Can Imported Hydropower Be Used for Meeting EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules?
- Idaho Legislature Opposes Snake Dam Removal
- Pacific Northwest Snow-Pack Gains Back 2% from Weekend Storm
- Here’s Why It Will Be a Bad Year for the Pacific Northwest – Or Maybe Not
- Exclusive: Warm Winter Temperatures Slammed California Wind Farms
- Solar Oregon: 10x More Energy in Ten Years
- The Utah Solar Boomlet: PURPA Lives!
- Texas: Senate Votes to End Renewable Energy Programs
- Op/Ed: What’s the True Cost of Wind Power?
- Why Thousands of Snohomish County Streetlights Are Being Switched to LED
- Bellingham Plans to Convert Streetlights to LEDs This Year – Will Use $4 Million Low-Interest Loan
- Energy Efficiency: The ‘First Fuel’ & a Source of Energy in its Own Right
- Mossyrock Man Honored by Bonneville Power Administration
- Say Goodbye to Medical Marijuana as You Know It in Washington
- With Legalization Possible, Pot Growers Become Lobbyists
- ‘Uber for Marijuana:’ Snoop Dogg’s Newest Business Investment
- Editorial: Even Kitzhaber Official Knew Carbon Tax Would Cut Emissions Little
- The Cost of Carbon: Economists Urge Salem to Make Polluters Pay
- Meet the Portland Carbon Fund, the City’s Bold New Carbon Tax
- Broadcast Meteorologists Increasingly Convinced Manmade Climate Change is Happening
- Idaho to Join Handful of States That Charge Electric Car Owners Extra
- European Union Hits Google with Antitrust Charges
- U-S In-Flight Internet Could Be Hacked, Watchdog Warns
- Twitter for the Masses
- Ikea Brightens Up Little Corners of the World in These Fun Print Ads
- Clinton Wins High Marks for Social-Media Launch
- The Best Uses of the Hillary Clinton ‘Hillvetica’ Font
- Semi Truck Crashes on Highway 101 near Potlatch
- Warning of Early Fire Season in Pacific Northwest Sparks Concern
- It’s Tax Day. You Haven’t Filed. Should You Freak Out?
- Finish Your Taxes? Celebrate with These Freebies
- Former NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Guilty of 1st-Degree Murder
- Cosmopolis Man Tazed after He Chops down Neighbor’s Tree, Refuses Interview
- University of Oregon Names New President
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Public
Power Council Applauds Congressional Call for Columbia River Treaty
Negotiations (Public Power Council, Portland, OR)
PacifiCorp
Explores Joining California Energy Grid Group (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Snohomish
PUD Taps Anne Spangler, General Counsel, To Be Interim Manager (Herald Business
Journal, Everett, WA)
Update: Power Restored in Spokane Valley (KHQ-TV,
Spokane, WA)
Klamath
Falls Power Outage Linked to Animal Interference at Substation (Klamath Falls
Herald & News, OR)
California
Judge Won’t Take San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Case (San Diego Union-Tribune, CA)
Michigan
Hearing Pits Utilities against Consumer Advocates in Deregulation Battle (Utility
Dive)
That
Canadian Energy - Can Imported Hydropower Be Used for Meeting EPA Greenhouse
Gas Rules? (Politico Morning Energy)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Idaho Legislature Opposes Snake Dam Removal (Idaho
Mountain Express, Ketchum)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Pacific Northwest Snow-Pack Gains Back 2% from Weekend
Storm (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)
Here’s
Why It Will Be a Bad Year for the Pacific Northwest – Or Maybe Not (Northwest
Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Exclusive:
Warm Winter Temperatures Slammed California Wind Farms (Reuters)
Solar
Oregon: 10x More Energy in Ten Years (KOIN-TV,
Portland, OR)
The
Utah Solar Boomlet: PURPA Lives! (Breaking Energy)
Texas:
Senate Votes to End Renewable Energy Programs (Texas Tribune)
Op/Ed:
What’s the True Cost of Wind Power? (Newsweek)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Why Thousands of Snohomish County Streetlights Are Being Switched
to LED (Everett Herald, WA)
Bellingham
Plans to Convert Streetlights to LEDs This Year – Will Use $4 Million Low-Interest
Loan (Bellingham Herald, WA)
Energy
Efficiency: The ‘First Fuel’ & a Source of Energy in its Own Right (The
Energy Collective)
Mossyrock
Man Honored by Bonneville Power Administration (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Say
Goodbye to Medical Marijuana as You Know It in Washington (Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
WA)
With
Legalization Possible, Pot Growers Become Lobbyists (Associated Press)
‘Uber
for Marijuana:’ Snoop Dogg’s Newest Business Investment (Christian Science
Monitor)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Editorial:
Even Kitzhaber Official Knew Carbon Tax Would Cut Emissions Little (Oregonian,
Portland)
The
Cost of Carbon: Economists Urge Salem to Make Polluters Pay (Portland Business
Journal, OR)
Meet
the Portland Carbon Fund, the City’s Bold New Carbon Tax (Portland Business
Journal, OR)
Broadcast
Meteorologists Increasingly Convinced Manmade Climate Change is Happening (Washington
Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Idaho to Join Handful of States That Charge Electric Car
Owners Extra (Northwest Public Radio)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
European
Union Hits Google with Antitrust Charges (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
U-S
In-Flight Internet Could Be Hacked, Watchdog Warns (British Broadcasting Corporation)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter
for the Masses - For non-tweeters, the social network can feel clubby &
confusing. Can its new home page change that? (Slate Magazine)
Ikea
Brightens Up Little Corners of the World in These Fun Print Ads (AdWeek)
Clinton
Wins High Marks for Social-Media Launch (Reuters)
The
Best Uses of the Hillary Clinton ‘Hillvetica’ Font (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Semi Truck Crashes on Highway 101 near Potlatch (Mason
Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Warning of Early Fire Season in Pacific Northwest
Sparks Concern (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
It’s Tax Day. You Haven’t Filed. Should You Freak
Out? (Washington Post)
Finish Your Taxes? Celebrate with These Freebies (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Former NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Guilty of 1st-Degree
Murder (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Cosmopolis Man Tazed after He Chops down Neighbor’s
Tree, Refuses Interview (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
University of Oregon Names New President – The
new president will be the university’s fifth leader in six years (KOIN-TV,
Portland, OR)
DIVERSIONS
The
Myth & Magic of WD-40, the Cold War Lube That Changed America
The
Apollo 13 Astronauts Have Been Immortalized in Lego
Maryland
Detains ‘Free-Range’ Kids: How Walk to Playground Became So Fraught
Soulful
Singer Percy Sledge Dies
SONGS OF THE DAY
Percy
Sledge – Warm & Tender Love
Percy
Sledge – A Whiter Shade of Pale
Percy
Sledge – When a Man Loves a Woman
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