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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Apple Incorporated’s Massive Oregon Wind Farm Breaks Ground (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Court Rules In Favor Of Oregon PUDs in Energy Supplier Assessments Case (Pamplin Media Group, Portland, OR)
At Least 8,500 Verizon Wireless Customers Booted Off the Network (Broadband Reports)
Energy Firms Battle Startups to Wire Europe’s Highways for Electric Cars (Reuters)
The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media (NY Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Court Rules In Favor Of Oregon PUDs in Energy Supplier Assessments Case
- Richland City Council Considers 6.5 Percent Rate Increase for Power Customers
- Snohomish PUD Offers Tips on Preparing for Winter
- Public Power Continues to Demonstrate Sound Financial Performance: Moody’s
- FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee Won’t Commit to Propping Up Coal, Nuclear Power
- Baseload Compensation a High Priority for FERC, Chatterjee Tells Congress
- Interior’s Ryan Zinke Issues Order to Boost Hunting, Fishing In Parks & Monuments
- Apple Incorporated’s Massive Oregon Wind Farm Breaks Ground
- Trump on Climate Change: ‘We’ve Had Bigger Storms’
- Boulder’s Energy Tax is the Right Idea, But Energy Sources Matter
- Energy Firms Battle Startups to Wire Europe’s Highways for Electric Cars
- At Least 8,500 Verizon Wireless Customers Booted Off the Network
- Verizon Gives Up, Decides It Doesn’t Want to Buy Comcast or Charter After All
- In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
- The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media
- Facebook Is Considering Allowing Users to Hit the Snooze Button
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Home-Made Bomb Injures 22 on Packed London Commuter Train
- Student Accused in Washington State School Shooting Blamed ‘Bullying’
- At Devil’s Cauldron – Search Called Off for British Columbia Dad Who Fell from Oregon Cliff during Vacation
- La Nina? We Thought Neutral? Why You Might Want to Start Preparing for a Cold, Wet Winter
- Stargazers Eye the Nation’s First Dark Sky Reserve in Idaho
Gelid • \JELL-id\ • Adjective – Extremely cold: icy
“Eeee! This creeps me out!” Howled Norberto as he bit into the old, rubbery Jello that he fished from the back of the refrigerator. The gelid, gelatinous mass was the last “edible” scrap of food in the confirmed bachelor’s ‘fridge, and he was determined not to let it go to waste, regardless of what his gag reflex told him.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Court Rules In Favor Of Oregon PUDs in Energy Supplier Assessments Case (Pamplin Media Group, Portland, OR)
Richland City Council Considers 6.5 Percent Rate Increase for Power Customers (Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, WA)
Snohomish PUD Offers Tips on Preparing for Winter (Stanwood Camano News, WA)
Public Power Continues to Demonstrate Sound Financial Performance: Moody’s (American Public Power Association)
FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee Won’t Commit to Propping Up Coal, Nuclear Power (Washington Examiner)
Baseload Compensation a High Priority for FERC, Chatterjee Tells Congress (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Interior’s Ryan Zinke Issues Order to Boost Hunting, Fishing In Parks & Monuments (Washington Examiner)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
Apple Incorporated’s Massive Oregon Wind Farm Breaks Ground (Portland Business Journal, OR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Trump on Climate Change: ‘We’ve Had Bigger Storms’ (Politico)
Boulder’s Energy Tax is the Right Idea, But Energy Sources Matter (The Energy Collective)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – SEETHING STEW OF SCIENCE
Energy Firms Battle Startups to Wire Europe’s Highways for Electric Cars (Reuters)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
At Least 8,500 Verizon Wireless Customers Booted Off the Network (Broadband Reports)
Verizon Gives Up, Decides It Doesn’t Want to Buy Comcast or Charter After All (Consumerist)
In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling (NY Times)
MARKETING & MEDIA
The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media (NY Times)
Facebook Is Considering Allowing Users to Hit the Snooze Button (AdWeek)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
GENERAL NEWS
Home-Made Bomb Injures 22 on Packed London Commuter Train (Reuters)
Student Accused in Washington State School Shooting Blamed ‘Bullying’ (Reuters)
At Devil’s Cauldron – Search Called Off for British Columbia Dad Who Fell from Oregon Cliff during Vacation (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
La Nina? We Thought Neutral? Why You Might Want to Start Preparing for a Cold, Wet Winter (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Stargazers Eye the Nation’s First Dark Sky Reserve in Idaho (Associated Press)
LADY SINGS THE BLUES – DIVERSIONS
Bluetiful! Crayola Names New Blue Hue
Research on Big Ears, Crocodile Gambling Wins Ig Nobels
Boy Mowing White House Lawn Is Startled By the President
Carbon Dating Reveals Earliest Origins of Zero Symbol
SONG OF THE DAY
Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
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