SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Weather Forecast for June 20, 2016
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Los Angeles Power Plants May Burn Dirty Diesel Fuel to Avoid
Summer Blackouts (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Heat Wave Shatters Temperature Records across Southern
California (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Warm Weather Creates Hydropower Challenges (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Cowlitz PUD Reaching Cap for State Renewable Energy Program (Longview Daily News, WA)
Oregon: Deschutes River Salmon Restoration Remains a Work in
Progress (Associated Press)
http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jun/20/deschutes-river-salmon-restoration-still-work-in-progress/
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Los Angeles Power Plants May Burn Dirty Diesel Fuel to Avoid Summer Blackouts
- Warm Weather Creates Hydropower Challenges
- Utah Energy Group Pursues Nuclear Power Project
- Nuclear: Is It Time for a Change to the Idaho Settlement Agreement?
- Snohomish County PUD Increases Security Patrols
- Editorial: Nuclear Energy Is a Carbon-Free Solution We Can’t Ignore
- How to Remove Danger Trees
- Oregon: Deschutes River Salmon Restoration Remains a Work in Progress
- Groups Seek to Protect Rare Butterfly Whose Only Home is San Juan Island
- Federal Appeals Court Backs North Dakota in Cross-Border Pollution Case with Minnesota
- Cowlitz PUD Reaching Cap for State Renewable Energy Program
- Montana Public Service Commission Suspends PURPA Rates for Small Solar Farms
- As Wind Power Lifts Wyoming’s Fortunes, Coal Miners Are Left in the Dust
- California Tries to Capture Offshore Wind Energy – Proposal Off Morro Bay Looks for Approval
- Fishermen Worry about Plan for Wind Farm Off New York Coast
- Vestas Scores Massive Order for Warren Buffett-Backed Wind Farm in Iowa
- Canada: Bay of Fundy Tidal Turbines on Hold over Environmental Concerns
- GE Startup Injects Life to Efficient-Energy Efforts
- Yakima at the Forefront of New Hemp Growing Program
- Pot Unites Businesspeople & Hippies at New York Cannabis Conference
- The Trees on Your Block Are Worth HOW Much Money?! Scientists just showed that money really does grow on trees
- You Can Ditch Your Cable Box Forever If This Gets Approved
- How to Choose Between Comcast & Verizon for Internet Service
- Verizon Urged to Stop ‘#1 Fastest’ Claim After Comcast Complaint
- Amazon to Open Brick-&-Mortar Bookstore in Oregon – Just 10 Miles from Indie Giant Powell’s
- British Exit from European Union? ‘Brexit’ Could Send Shock Waves Across U-S & Global Economy
- Heat Wave Shatters Temperature Records across Southern California
- Health, Power & Safety - State of the Mason County Community
- Major ‘Road Diet’ in West Seattle Draws Debate
- The Wait Is Over: Monday Marks the Day You Can Use Visa at Costco
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Los Angeles Power Plants May Burn Dirty Diesel Fuel to Avoid
Summer Blackouts (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Warm Weather Creates Hydropower Challenges (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Utah Energy Group Pursues Nuclear Power Project (Deseret
News, Salt Lake City, UT)
Nuclear: Is It Time for a Change to the Idaho Settlement
Agreement? (The Energy Collective)
Snohomish County PUD Increases Security Patrols (My Edmonds
News, WA)
Editorial: Nuclear Energy Is a Carbon-Free Solution We Can’t
Ignore (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
How to Remove Danger Trees (Transmission & Distribution
World)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon: Deschutes River Salmon Restoration Remains a Work in
Progress (Associated Press)
http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jun/20/deschutes-river-salmon-restoration-still-work-in-progress/
Groups Seek to Protect Rare Butterfly Whose Only Home is San
Juan Island (Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Federal Appeals Court Backs North Dakota in Cross-Border
Pollution Case with Minnesota (Utility Dive)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Cowlitz PUD Reaching Cap for State Renewable Energy Program (Longview Daily News, WA)
Montana Public Service Commission Suspends PURPA Rates for Small
Solar Farms (Utility Dive)
As Wind Power Lifts Wyoming’s Fortunes, Coal Miners Are Left
in the Dust (NY Times)
California Tries to Capture Offshore Wind Energy – Proposal Off
Morro Bay Looks for Approval (San Diego Union-Tribune, CA)
Fishermen Worry about Plan for Wind Farm Off New York Coast (Associated Press)
Vestas Scores Massive Order for Warren Buffett-Backed Wind
Farm in Iowa (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Canada: Bay of Fundy Tidal Turbines on Hold over
Environmental Concerns (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
GE Startup Injects Life to Efficient-Energy Efforts (USA Today)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Yakima at the Forefront of New Hemp Growing Program (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Pot Unites Businesspeople & Hippies at New York Cannabis
Conference (Associated Press)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
The Trees on Your Block Are Worth HOW Much Money?! Scientists
just showed that money really does grow on trees (Mother Jones)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
You Can Ditch Your Cable Box Forever If This Gets Approved (Sacramento Bee, CA)
How to Choose Between Comcast & Verizon for Internet Service
(USA Today)
Verizon Urged to Stop ‘#1 Fastest’ Claim After Comcast
Complaint (Broadband Reports)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Amazon to Open Brick-&-Mortar Bookstore in Oregon – Just
10 Miles from Indie Giant Powell’s (Los Angeles Times, CA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
British Exit from European Union? ‘Brexit’ Could Send Shock
Waves Across U-S & Global Economy (Washington Post)
GENERAL NEWS
Heat Wave Shatters Temperature Records across Southern
California (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Health, Power & Safety - State of the Mason County Community
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Major ‘Road Diet’ in West Seattle Draws Debate (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
The Wait Is Over: Monday Marks the Day You Can Use Visa at Costco
(Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
FLYING FIGS – DIVERSIONS
Washington State Provost Grows Bee Beard to Raise Cash for
Bee Center
Cool Dad Uses Helicopter to Pull Son’s Loose Tooth
‘Star Trek’ Actor Anton Yelchin Dies in Freak Car Accident
Forecast: Summer Arrives with a ‘Strawberry Moon’
SONG OF THE DAY
Michael Giacchino – Star Trek Into Darkness, Main Theme
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