SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
California Voters Could Decide Future of Climate Change
Program (Reuters)
California Files First State Clean Power Plan Compliance
Draft despite Supreme Court Stay (Utility Dive)
Op/Ed: Columbia Generating Station, a Nuclear Plant,
Performs Well (Oregonian, Portland)
Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Net Metering Ballot Proposal
(Utility Dive)
FCC Launches Mapping Tool to Explore Link between Health,
Broadband Access (Mobihealth News)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California Files First State Clean Power Plan Compliance Draft despite Supreme Court Stay
- Op/Ed: Columbia Generating Station, a Nuclear Plant, Performs Well
- Chelan PUD’s Suzanne Grassell honored as Influential Woman in Hydropower
- Pacific Gas & Electric Deal Would Cut California Customers’ Power Bill
- Xcel Proposes Massive, $500 Million Upgrade of Colorado Electric Meters
- Montana: Missouri River Dropping as Black Eagle Dam Maintenance Begins
- Feds Give Apple Approval to Sell Electricity
- Columbia River Fishing Reports Show Good Number of Fish Moving Upstream to Catch
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Federal Fishery Limits off Pacific Northwest Coast
- Water Bottling Plans Cause Controversy in Waitsburg
- The Sneaky Reason U-S Coastlines Are Becoming More Polluted
- Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Net Metering Ballot Proposal
- California: Can America’s First Floating Wind Farm Shake Off Environmental Concerns?
- ‘Go Time’: First U-S Offshore Wind Facility Enters Final Construction Phase
- Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders
- Orcas Power & Light Rebates Beginning To Dwindle
- Puyallup Tribe Pursuing Medical Marijuana Grow after Signing Deal with Washington State
- California Voters Could Decide Future of Climate Change Program
- Electric Vehicle Show & Rally to be Held in Yakima Friday
- Groups Set to Sue over Polluted Fairbanks Air
- Real-Life MacGyver Hacks Together a Hydroelectric Generator to Charge His Phone
- FCC Launches Mapping Tool to Explore Link between Health, Broadband Access
- ‘Business as Usual’ at Yahoo! after Verizon Acquisition
- CenturyLink Loses 65,000 Broadband Customers in Second Quarter
- Washington State’s Largest Community College Partners with Coding School to Meet Demand for Tech Workers
- Comcast Will Continue Using Overseas Call Centers
- Marketing to Olympic Audiences? This Infographic Could Mean Campaign Gold
- Customer Advocacy: How to Get People to Talk About Your Company
- How to Use the Twitter Dashboard
- Famous Headlines, Rewritten for Facebook’s New Clickbait Policy
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Mason County Primary Election Results – Updated 5 PM 8/4/15
- Badger Mountain Yields Huge Illegal Marijuana Grow
- ‘American Pickers’ Coming to Washington State, Looking for Collections
- FCC Adjusts, But Still Can’t Implement, Caps on Sky-High Rates Prisoners Pay to Call Home
- Next Week’s Perseid Meteor Shower Could Be Like No Other
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California Files First State Clean Power Plan Compliance
Draft despite Supreme Court Stay (Utility Dive)
Op/Ed: Columbia Generating Station, a Nuclear Plant,
Performs Well (Oregonian, Portland)
Chelan PUD’s Suzanne Grassell honored as Influential Woman
in Hydropower (NWC Life, East Wenatchee, WA)
Pacific Gas & Electric Deal Would Cut California Customers’
Power Bill (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Xcel Proposes Massive, $500 Million Upgrade of Colorado
Electric Meters (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Montana: Missouri River Dropping as Black Eagle Dam
Maintenance Begins (Great Falls Tribune, MT)
Feds Give Apple Approval to Sell Electricity (Washington
Examiner)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia River Fishing Reports Show Good Number of Fish
Moving Upstream to Catch (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Ninth Circuit Upholds Federal Fishery Limits off Pacific
Northwest Coast (Courthouse News
Service)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Water Bottling Plans Cause Controversy in Waitsburg (Northwest
Public Radio)
The Sneaky Reason U-S Coastlines Are Becoming More Polluted
(Gizmodo)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Net Metering Ballot Proposal (Utility
Dive)
California: Can America’s First Floating Wind Farm Shake Off
Environmental Concerns? (The Guardian, UK)
‘Go Time’: First U-S Offshore Wind Facility Enters Final
Construction Phase (Utility Dive)
Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Orcas Power & Light Rebates Beginning To Dwindle (The
Islands Sounder, Eastsound, WA)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Puyallup Tribe Pursuing Medical Marijuana Grow after Signing
Deal with Washington State (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
California Voters Could Decide Future of Climate Change
Program (Reuters)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Electric Vehicle Show & Rally to be Held in Yakima
Friday (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Groups Set to Sue over Polluted Fairbanks Air (Juneau
Empire, AK)
Real-Life MacGyver Hacks Together a Hydroelectric Generator
to Charge His Phone (Gizmodo)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
FCC Launches Mapping Tool to Explore Link between Health,
Broadband Access (Mobihealth News)
‘Business as Usual’ at Yahoo! after Verizon Acquisition (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
CenturyLink Loses 65,000 Broadband Customers in Second Quarter
(Broadband Reports)
Washington State’s Largest Community College Partners with
Coding School to Meet Demand for Tech Workers (Puget Sound Business Journal,
WA)
Comcast Will Continue Using Overseas Call Centers (Consumerist)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Marketing to Olympic Audiences? This Infographic Could Mean
Campaign Gold (AdWeek)
Customer Advocacy: How to Get People to Talk About Your Company
(Social Media Examiner)
How to Use the Twitter Dashboard (Social Media Examiner)
Famous Headlines, Rewritten for Facebook’s New Clickbait
Policy (The Atlantic Magazine)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Mason County Primary Election Results – Updated 5 PM 8/4/15
(Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Badger Mountain Yields Huge Illegal Marijuana Grow (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
‘American Pickers’ Coming to Washington State, Looking for Collections
(Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
FCC Adjusts, But Still Can’t Implement, Caps on Sky-High
Rates Prisoners Pay to Call Home (Consumerist)
Next Week’s Perseid Meteor Shower Could Be Like No Other (Mashable)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Map Shows Which NFL Team Each State Thinks Will Win This
Year’s Super Bowl
Homeowner Regrets Letting Campers Live in Backyard
Woman’s 1.3-Carat Wedding Ring Found in Lake Michigan
Dog from Texas, missing for years, finds his way home
SONG OF THE DAY
NFL Films – Drive to Glory
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