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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Nations Ink Historic Paris Climate Deal (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Corps of Engineers Resumes Columbia River Cormorant Removal (Longview Daily News, WA)
Seattle Public Utilities Asks Residents to Run Water Amid
Lead Concerns (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Hot Weather Leads to Transmission Emergency at Ice Harbor
Dam – Reduces Spill for Juvenile Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
The US Used Less Energy in 2015 with Less Waste, New Report
Shows (Utility Dive)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Hot Weather Leads to Transmission Emergency at Ice Harbor Dam – Reduces Spill for Juvenile Fish
- Pacific Gas & Electric Criminal Trial for San Bruno Fire Delayed
- Tree Climber Dies after Fall
- Why Anti-Nuclear Enviros Just Aren’t the Same as Climate Deniers
- Corps of Engineers Resumes Columbia River Cormorant Removal
- Warm Seas Continue to Chop Salmon Numbers, Affecting Idaho, Pacific Northwest
- As Spring Chinook Passage Picks Up at Bonneville Dam, So Do Sea Lion Numbers, Salmon Mortality
- Lowland Lakes Fishing Season Starts Saturday
- Orca Tagging Stops after Dead Whale Found with Fragments
- Irony Alert: Study Finds Lack of Diversity (Gender, Race) among Fisheries Scientists
- Seattle Public Utilities Asks Residents to Run Water Amid Lead Concerns
- Seattle Area’s Air Quality Gets Poor Grades
- Waters of the U-S – GOP Measure to Block EPA Water Rule Fails
- Indulgence Corner: Buying Clean Electricity
- The US Used Less Energy in 2015 with Less Waste, New Report Shows
- This Earth Day, Let’s Look at How Much Energy We’ve Been Using
- Six Necessary Steps When Oregon Pot Sellers Pay Taxes with Cash
- Canada: Pot Culture Crash? Marijuana Legalization in Canada May Extinguish Drug Cachet
- Nations Ink Historic Paris Climate Deal
- Carbon Emissions & the Washington State Clean Air Rule: A Few Things to Know
- Bill Nye Predicts Major Shift in Climate Change Debate
- Solar Plane Slowly Soaring from Hawaii to California
- AT&T Is Reaching Out to Low-Income Americans with $10 Internet Service
- Ten-Dollar Router Blamed in $80 Million Bangladesh Bank Hack
- Google Parent Alphabet Sees a Worrisome Slowdown in Online Advertising
- Facebook Inches into Skype Territory with Group Calls on Messenger
- Judge Rules British Columbia Woman’s Defamatory Facebook Posts ‘Completely False & Unjustified’
- Online Media Is Tested When Social Platforms Come to Town
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Conservation Attorney Launches Campaign for Washington State Lands Commissioner
- Life without Parole for Carnation Family Killer
- Update: First Paving on Shelton’s Lake Boulevard Complete
- National Park Spending Contributed $32 Billion to U-S Economy
- In 2015, park visitors spent an estimated $270.6 Million in local gateway regions while visiting Olympic National Park
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Hot Weather Leads to Transmission Emergency at Ice Harbor
Dam – Reduces Spill for Juvenile Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Pacific Gas & Electric Criminal Trial for San Bruno Fire
Delayed (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Tree Climber Dies after Fall (KONP Radio, Port Angeles, WA)
Why Anti-Nuclear Enviros Just Aren’t the Same as Climate Deniers
(Grist Online)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Corps of Engineers Resumes Columbia River Cormorant Removal (Longview Daily News, WA)
Warm Seas Continue to Chop Salmon Numbers, Affecting Idaho, Pacific
Northwest (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
As Spring Chinook Passage Picks Up at Bonneville Dam, So Do
Sea Lion Numbers, Salmon Mortality (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Lowland Lakes Fishing Season Starts Saturday (KELA Radio,
Centralia, WA)
Orca Tagging Stops after Dead Whale Found with Fragments (Associated Press)
Irony Alert: Study Finds Lack of Diversity (Gender, Race) among
Fisheries Scientists (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Seattle Public Utilities Asks Residents to Run Water Amid
Lead Concerns (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Seattle Area’s Air Quality Gets Poor Grades (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Waters of the U-S – GOP Measure to Block EPA Water Rule
Fails (Washington Examiner)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Indulgence Corner: Buying Clean Electricity (Breaking
Energy)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
The US Used Less Energy in 2015 with Less Waste, New Report
Shows (Utility Dive)
This Earth Day, Let’s Look at How Much Energy We’ve Been
Using (The Energy Collective)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Six Necessary Steps When Oregon Pot Sellers Pay Taxes with Cash
(Consumerist)
Canada: Pot Culture Crash? Marijuana Legalization in Canada May
Extinguish Drug Cachet (Victoria
Times Colonist, BC)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Nations Ink Historic Paris Climate Deal (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Carbon Emissions & the Washington State Clean Air Rule:
A Few Things to Know (Business Institute of Washington)
Bill Nye Predicts Major Shift in Climate Change Debate (AOL
News)
SCIENCE IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Solar Plane Slowly Soaring from Hawaii to California (ABC
News)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AT&T Is Reaching Out to Low-Income Americans with $10 Internet
Service (Washington Post)
Ten-Dollar Router Blamed in $80 Million Bangladesh Bank Hack
(British Broadcasting Corporation)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Google Parent Alphabet Sees a Worrisome Slowdown in Online
Advertising (Washington Post)
Facebook Inches into Skype Territory with Group Calls on
Messenger (Consumerist)
Judge Rules British Columbia Woman’s Defamatory Facebook Posts
‘Completely False & Unjustified’ (Victoria
Times Colonist, BC)
Online Media Is Tested When Social Platforms Come to Town (NY Times)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Conservation Attorney Launches Campaign for Washington State
Lands Commissioner (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Hilary-Franz-of-Futurewise-launches-land-7276814.php
GENERAL NEWS
Life without Parole for Carnation Family Killer (Seattle
Post-Intelligencewr, WA)
Update: First Paving on Shelton’s Lake Boulevard Complete (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
National Park Spending Contributed $32 Billion to U-S
Economy (Travel Weekly)
Olympic National Park
In 2015, park visitors spent an estimated $270.6 Million in
local gateway regions while visiting Olympic National Park. These expenditures
supported 3.7 Thousand jobs, $131.2 Million in labor income, $232.6 Million in
value added, & $375.5 Million in economic output in local gateway economies
surrounding Olympic National Park.
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Mechanics Make Unusual Discovery in Car’s Engine
Why We Sleep So Poorly In Unfamiliar Places
McDonald’s Quashes All-You-Can-Eat Fries Reports
Prost! Germany Celebrates 500 Years of Beer Purity Law
SONG OF THE DAY
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
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