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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Puget Sound Energy Says Colstrip Closure Could Come Before
2022 (Associated Press)
Removing Dams Could Affect Cowlitz Industry, Electric Rates (Longview
Daily News, WA)
EPA Denies Petitions Asking It to Reconsider Clean Power
Plan (American Public Power Association)
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year
(NY Times)
Easing Back: NOAA Finalizes New Columbia River Hatchery Plan
(Northwest Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Removing Dams Could Affect Cowlitz Industry, Electric Rates
- Puget Sound Energy Says Colstrip Closure Could Come Before 2022
- Montana: Keane Introduces Bills to Preserve Colstrip Power, Aid Workers
- Grays Harbor PUD Dealing with Outages Impacting Over 5,000
- Port Ludlow Outage Cause a Mystery: Jefferson PUD Substation Had Seen ‘Major Work Done’
- Bonneville Power Administration Works on Creating a New Process for Modifying Its Open Access Transmission Tariff
- Public Power Utilities Among Those with Top Rankings from JD Power
- Seattle City (spot)Light: Benjamin Rushwald Volunteers for Nicaragua Projects
- New York: Man Warns Public About Energy Supply Companies
- Easing Back: NOAA Finalizes New Columbia River Hatchery Plan
- GOP Targets Landmark Endangered Species Act for Big Changes
- Trump’s Tax Reform Will Threaten Wind-Financing Deals, Spur M&A
- What You Need to Know Before Insulating Your Attic
- Two of Washington State’s Largest Recreational Marijuana Chains on the Selling Block
- Washington Cannabis Sales Boom, May Dwindle Under President Elect Trump
- EPA Denies Petitions Asking It to Reconsider Clean Power Plan
- Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year
- Ukraine’s Power Outage Was a Cyber Attack
- Video: How People in Rural Areas Deal with Bad or no Internet
- The Triumphant Rise & Epic Collapse of Vine
- What Eight Brand Storytellers Have to Say About the Content People Want to See
- U-S Supreme Court Justices Raise Doubts Over Law Barring Offensive Trademarks
- Central Washington State Ice Storm Impacts Widely Felt
- Specter of Space Heaters – Warming Your House Can Present Dangers
- Federal Grant Brings New Road Signs to Mason County
- Who Decides Who Counts as Native American?
- Walmart Employee Stops Elderly Couple from Losing $2,500 to “Grandparents Scam”
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Removing Dams Could Affect Cowlitz Industry, Electric Rates
(Longview Daily News, WA)
Puget Sound Energy Says Colstrip Closure Could Come Before
2022 (Associated Press)
Montana: Keane Introduces Bills to Preserve Colstrip Power,
Aid Workers (Montana Standard, Butte)
Grays Harbor PUD Dealing with Outages Impacting Over 5,000 (KXRO
Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Port Ludlow Outage Cause a Mystery: Jefferson PUD Substation
Had Seen ‘Major Work Done’ (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration Works on Creating a New
Process for Modifying Its Open Access Transmission Tariff (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Public Power Utilities Among Those with Top Rankings from JD
Power (American Public Power Association)
Seattle City (spot)Light: Benjamin Rushwald Volunteers for
Nicaragua Projects (City of Seattle, WA)
New York: Man Warns Public About Energy Supply Companies (WWNY-TV,
Watertown, NY)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Easing Back: NOAA Finalizes New Columbia River Hatchery Plan
(Northwest Public Radio)
GOP Targets Landmark Endangered Species Act for Big Changes
(Las Vegas Sun, NV)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Trump’s Tax Reform Will Threaten Wind-Financing Deals, Spur
M&A (Governors’ Wind & Solar Energy Coalition)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
What You Need to Know Before Insulating Your Attic (Washington
Post)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Two of Washington State’s Largest Recreational Marijuana
Chains on the Selling Block (Marijuana Business Daily)
Washington Cannabis Sales Boom, May Dwindle Under President
Elect Trump (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
EPA Denies Petitions Asking It to Reconsider Clean Power
Plan (American Public Power Association)
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year (NY
Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Ukraine’s Power Outage Was a Cyber Attack (Reuters)
Video: How People in Rural Areas Deal with Bad or no
Internet (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2017/01/17/how-people-rural-areas-deal-bad-no-internet/96675740/
MARKETING & MEDIA
The Triumphant Rise & Epic Collapse of Vine (Consumerist)
What Eight Brand Storytellers Have to Say About the Content
People Want to See (AdWeek)
U-S Supreme Court Justices Raise Doubts Over Law Barring
Offensive Trademarks (Associated Press – Non PC Content)
GENERAL NEWS
Central Washington State Ice Storm Impacts Widely Felt (KPQ
Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Specter of Space Heaters – Warming Your House Can Present
Dangers (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Federal Grant Brings New Road Signs to Mason County (Kitsap
Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Who Decides Who Counts as Native American? (NY Times)
Walmart Employee Stops Elderly Couple from Losing $2,500 to “Grandparents
Scam” (Consumerist)
THE GREENBACK DOLLAR – DIVERSIONS
Check Out the Evolution of the US Dollar Bill
Royal palace haunted by friendly ghosts, Sweden’s Queen
Silvia says
http://news.sky.com/story/royal-palace-haunted-by-friendly-ghosts-swedens-queen-silvia-says-10718559
It’s The Year of the (Giant Inflatable Trump) Rooster at One
Chinese Factory “…likeness to Trump is pure coincidence and unintended…”
Mexico’s Lower House Becomes ‘Chamber of Rats’ on Google
Maps
SONG OF THE DAY – CRANK IT UP, IT’S THE LAW
Cream – Badge
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