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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Interior Secretary Jewell Backs Klamath River Dam Removal
(Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Chelan PUD – Alcoa Deal (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Washington State Supreme Court Water-Rights Ruling Will
Affect Building Permits for Rural Property Owners (Spokesman Review, Spokane,
WA)
The Obama Administration Steps Up to the Plate on Cleaning
Up Puget Sound (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Japanese Company to Build Oregon Plant After Honing
Biomass-For-Coal Process (Portland Business Journal, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Chelan PUD – Alcoa Deal
- Vancouver City Council Votes to Oppose Longview Coal Terminal Plan
- The World’s Nine Largest Operating Power Plants Are Hydroelectric Facilities
- News Release: Administration More Interested in Destroying Dams Than Generating Affordable Hydroelectricity
- Scary: Clatskanie PUD in the Spirit
- Interior Secretary Jewell Backs Klamath River Dam Removal
- No Upper Columbia Steelhead Fishing This Year
- Op/Ed: Eating Crow About Elwha Salmon
- We Are in the Golden Age of Oysters
- The Obama Administration Steps Up to the Plate on Cleaning Up Puget Sound
- Washington State Supreme Court Water-Rights Ruling Will Affect Building Permits for Rural Property Owners
- Clallam Public Utility District Lifts Water Restrictions for All Areas
- Japanese Company to Build Oregon Plant After Honing Biomass-For-Coal Process
- Washington State Ranks 8th for Energy Efficiency in 2015 Scorecard Report
- Avista’s Helpful Approach is Working to Make Small Businesses More Energy Efficient
- To Get People to Use Less Electricity, Utility Providers Are Employing Guilt & Peer Pressure
- Canada: LED Streetlights Could Be Coming to Kelowna
- Massachusetts Marijuana Ballot Initiative Support Grows: Poll
- Scientists Accidentally Turned Pollution into Fuel
- Ethanol: Clean Fuel Group Uses Foreign Threat to Argue for Subsidies
- How the Coming Boom in Electric & Self-Driving Vehicles Will Transform the Grid
- T-Mobile Fined Millions for Selling Unlimited Data Plans That Weren’t Really Unlimited
- Comcast’s Latest Sneaky Fee: $2/Month ‘Voice Technology Fee’
- Bill Belichick’s Epic Rant Against NFL Tablets: ‘I’m Done’
- Whoever Wins the White House, This Year’s Big Loser Is Email
- Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Buy Twitter?
- How Is Yahoo Doing After the Data Breach?
- Video Storytelling Tools for Social Marketers
- Indian Tribes May Be Sovereign, But Their Casinos Remain Subject to Federal Scrutiny
- Woman, 23, Charged after ‘Wild’ Fight Forces Bremerton-Seattle Ferry to Dock
- A Deeper Look at Saturday’s Storm: Can We Do Better?
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Chelan PUD – Alcoa Deal (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Vancouver City Council Votes to Oppose Longview Coal
Terminal Plan (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
The World’s Nine Largest Operating Power Plants Are
Hydroelectric Facilities (U-S Energy Information Administration)
News Release: Administration More Interested in Destroying
Dams Than Generating Affordable Hydroelectricity (U-S House Natural Resources
Committee)
Scary: Clatskanie PUD in the Spirit (Clatskanie Chief, OR)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Interior Secretary Jewell Backs Klamath River Dam Removal
(Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
No Upper Columbia Steelhead Fishing This Year (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Op/Ed: Eating Crow About Elwha Salmon (Peninsula Daily News,
Port Angeles, WA)
We Are in the Golden Age of Oysters (Atlantic Magazine)
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOT LOCKER
The Obama Administration Steps Up to the Plate on Cleaning
Up Puget Sound (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Washington State Supreme Court Water-Rights Ruling Will
Affect Building Permits for Rural Property Owners (Spokesman Review, Spokane,
WA)
Clallam Public Utility District Lifts Water Restrictions for
All Areas (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Japanese Company to Build Oregon Plant After Honing
Biomass-For-Coal Process (Portland Business Journal, OR)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington State Ranks 8th for Energy Efficiency in 2015
Scorecard Report (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Avista’s Helpful Approach is Working to Make Small Businesses
More Energy Efficient (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
To Get People to Use Less Electricity, Utility Providers Are
Employing Guilt & Peer Pressure (Quartz)
Canada: LED Streetlights Could Be Coming to Kelowna (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Massachusetts Marijuana Ballot Initiative Support Grows:
Poll (Reuters)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Scientists Accidentally Turned Pollution into Fuel – Researchers
have stumbled upon a way to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol, using spikey
nanoparticles (Christian Science Monitor)
Ethanol: Clean Fuel Group Uses Foreign Threat to Argue for
Subsidies (Washington Examiner)
How the Coming Boom in Electric & Self-Driving Vehicles
Will Transform the Grid (Utility Dive)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
T-Mobile Fined Millions for Selling Unlimited Data Plans
That Weren’t Really Unlimited (Washington Post)
Comcast’s Latest Sneaky Fee: $2/Month ‘Voice Technology Fee’
(Broadband Reports)
Bill Belichick’s Epic Rant Against NFL Tablets: ‘I’m Done’ (KCPQ-TV,
Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Whoever Wins the White House, This Year’s Big Loser Is Email
“...Why were all these people discussing so much over email in the first place?
Haven’t they heard of phone calls?...? (NY Times)
Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Buy Twitter? (Washington Post)
How Is Yahoo Doing After the Data Breach? (Christian Science
Monitor)
Video Storytelling Tools for Social Marketers (Social Media
Examiner)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Indian Tribes May Be Sovereign, But Their Casinos Remain
Subject to Federal Scrutiny (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Woman, 23, Charged after ‘Wild’ Fight Forces Bremerton-Seattle
Ferry to Dock (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
A Deeper Look at Saturday’s Storm: Can We Do Better? (Cliff
Mass Weather Blog)
SHALLOW GRAVE, BAG OF QUICKLIME – DIVERSIONS
In The Face of This Terrible Election, Friends in Canada Tell
America Why It’s Great
‘It Was a Total Surprise’: Family Unearths 100-Year Old
Mural on Old Building
Google Searches by State Show Washington Interested in
Earthquake Safety – Delaware Asks for Homicide How-To’s
Classes for Jedis Run Afoul of the Lucasfilm Empire
SONG OF THE DAY
Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
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