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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Statewide Drought
Declared in Washington Due to Low Snowpack, Dry Forecast (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities,
WA)
U.S. Court Rejects
a Request by Tribes to Block $10 Billion Energy Transmission Project in Arizona
(Associated Press)
Attackers Are
Pummeling Networks Around the World with Millions of Login Attempts (Ars
Technica)
The Electric
Vehicle Market Is in Trouble: The Latest Sign Is Tesla’s Layoffs (Los Angeles
Times, CA – Paywall Advisory)
Here’s What New LED
Lightbulb Standards Mean for American Households (The Hill, Washington, DC)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. U.S.
Court Rejects a Request by Tribes to Block $10 Billion Energy Transmission
Project in Arizona
2. The
Biden Admin Has a Plan to Get More Mileage Out of the Power Grid
3. Public
Weighs in on NW Natural’s Proposed Rate Hike
4. Natural
Gas Needed in California’s Clean Energy Transition, Edison International CEO
Says
5. Mild
Winter Weather May Lead to Persistently High Natural Gas Inventories Through
2025
6. More
Than Two Dozen Western Utilities Back Southwest Power Pool Development of
Centralized Markets+ Unit
7. Indiana:
Deputy Dies After Coming into Contact with Power Lines While Responding to
Crash
8. 2023
Was a Record Year for Wind Installations as World Ramps Up Clean Energy, Report
Says
9. Here’s
What New LED Lightbulb Standards Mean for American Households
10. Audio:
Willamette Winter Steelhead Returns at 20-Year High
11. Statewide
Drought Declared in Washington Due to Low Snowpack, Dry Forecast
12. Carbon
Offsets Too Often Don’t Deliver. Inside the Race to Fix Them.
13. Why
Environmental Justice Matters, From the Founder Himself
14. Oregon
Grants $1.5 Million for Broadband Infrastructure Preparation
15. Broadband
Coalition Urges U.S. House to Force a Vote on Affordable Connectivity Program
16. Attackers
Are Pummeling Networks Around the World with Millions of Login Attempts
17. Internet
Data Centers Are Fueling Drive to Old Power Source: Coal
18. The
Cloud Under the Sea
19. The
Electric Vehicle Market Is in Trouble: The Latest Sign Is Tesla’s Layoffs
20. What
Good Is an Electric Vehicle If You Can’t Charge It? Here’s the Plan to Build
More Chargers
21. What’s
with All the Black-And-White Logos for Apps?
22. Editorial:
A Vision for Smart-From-The-Start Solar on Public Lands in Nevada
23. Guest
Essay: Regulators, Don’t Panic & Rush to Gas Amid Cries We’re Out of Power
24.
Guest Essay: WA Is Losing Farms &
Food-Producing Land. Does Anyone Care?
Word of the Day – The Horrible Haiku Edition
Happy National Haiku Poetry Day
Wake /WAYK/ Noun – The track left by a moving body (such as a ship) in a fluid (such as water) broadly: a track or path left.
Peace on Puget
Sound
A ferry’s wake,
seabirds’ call
Guide me home each day
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
U.S. Court Rejects a Request by Tribes to Block
$10 Billion Energy Transmission Project in Arizona (Associated Press)
2.
The Biden Admin Has a Plan to Get More Mileage
Out of the Power Grid (Canary Media)
3.
Public Weighs in on NW Natural’s Proposed Rate
Hike (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
4.
Natural Gas Needed in California’s Clean Energy
Transition, Edison International CEO Says (Reuters)
5.
Mild Winter Weather May Lead to Persistently
High Natural Gas Inventories Through 2025 (U.S. Energy Information
Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61803
6.
More Than Two Dozen Western Utilities Back Southwest
Power Pool Development of Centralized Markets+ Unit (Daily Energy Insider)
7.
Indiana: Deputy Dies After Coming into Contact with
Power Lines While Responding to Crash (KKTV-TV, Colorado Springs, CO)
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
8.
2023 Was a Record Year for Wind Installations as
World Ramps Up Clean Energy, Report Says (Courthouse News Service)
Conservation &
Efficiency
9.
Here’s What New LED Lightbulb Standards Mean for
American Households (The Hill, Washington, DC)
Fish & Wildlife
10.
Audio: Willamette Winter Steelhead Returns at 20-Year
High (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/16/winter-steelhead-willamette/
Water, Water, Anywhere?
11.
Statewide Drought Declared in Washington Due to Low
Snowpack, Dry Forecast (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
12.
Carbon Offsets Too Often Don’t Deliver. Inside the
Race to Fix Them. (Washington Post – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/climate-coal-offsets-carbon-rockefeller/
13.
Why Environmental Justice Matters, From the Founder
Himself (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
London Calling
–Telecommunications
14.
Oregon grants $1.5 million for broadband
infrastructure preparation (KPTV-TV, Portland, OR)
https://www.kptv.com/2024/04/17/oregon-grants-15-million-broadband-infrastructure-preparation/
15.
Broadband Coalition Urges U.S. House to Force a Vote
on Affordable Connectivity Program (Light Reading)
https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/broadband-coalition-urges-house-to-force-a-vote-on-acp
Beam Me Up, Scotty - The
Wizarding World of Technology & Cybersecurity
16.
Attackers Are Pummeling Networks Around the World
with Millions of Login Attempts (Ars Technica)
17.
Internet Data Centers Are Fueling Drive to Old
Power Source: Coal (Washington Post – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/data-centers-internet-power-source-coal/
18.
The Cloud Under the Sea (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
I Sing the Car Electric
19.
The Electric Vehicle Market Is in Trouble: The Latest
Sign Is Tesla’s Layoffs (Los Angeles Times, CA – Paywall Advisory)
20.
What Good Is an Electric Vehicle If You Can’t
Charge It? Here’s the Plan to Build More Chargers (National Public Radio)
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
21.
What’s with All the Black-And-White Logos for Apps?
(Washington Post – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/16/app-icons-logos-black-and-white/
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
22.
Editorial: A Vision for Smart-From-The-Start
Solar on Public Lands in Nevada (Nevada Independent)
23.
Guest Essay: Regulators, Don’t Panic & Rush to
Gas Amid Cries We’re Out of Power (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/regulators-dont-panic-and-rush-to-gas/712435/
24.
Guest Essay: WA Is Losing Farms &
Food-Producing Land. Does Anyone Care? (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-is-losing-farms-and-food-producing-land-does-anyone-care/
Alligators in the Sewer – Diversions
A ‘New’ Star Will
Light Up the Sky Soon & You Can See It for Yourself
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-star-t-coronae-borealis-1.7175301
Spooked Circus
Elephant Roams Butte, Montana Streets Before Being Recaptured
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spooked-circus-elephant-roams-montana-050424051.html
Man Drinks at 120
Bars in 24 Hours to Break World Record
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/04/17/australia-Guinness-World-Records-pub-crawl/8191713374341/
Man Paddles River in
Australia’s Largest Pumpkin
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/04/16/australia-pumpkin-boat-Tumut-River/5521713284146/
Song of the Day
Oliver - Good
Morning Starshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nVxl24cmQ
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