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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Crazy Weather Week
Coming to the US: From Searing Heat to Snow. Yes, Snow. (Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crazy-weather-week-coming-us-172803064.html
California
Legislators Break with Gov. Newsom Over Loan to Keep State’s Last Nuclear Plant
Running (Associated Press)
Portland to Provide
Thousands of Free Air Conditioners This Summer; Those in Need Can Call 311 (The
Oregonian, Portland, OR)
WA State: Quinault
Nation Files Petition Seeking Removal of the Skookumchuck Dam (The Chronicle,
Centralia, WA)
WA Carbon Prices
Lower Than Expected in Second Year of Auctions (Crosscut Seattle)
https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/06/wa-carbon-prices-lower-expected-second-year-auctions
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. California
Legislators Break with Gov. Newsom Over Loan to Keep State’s Last Nuclear Plant
Running
2. Bill
Gates Says "Support for Nuclear Power Is Very Impressive in Both
Parties" Amid New Plant in Wyoming
3. Idaho
Power May Shut Off Power to Prevent Wildfires in Extreme Conditions. What We
Know
4. Typical
Residential Electricity Bills Could Be Slightly Higher This Summer
5. Montana/North
Dakota Energy: Where Electricity Transmission & the Energy Transition Meet
6. Bonneville
Power Administration’s Transmission Field Services Tests New Real-Time Incident
Reporting Tool
7. Oregon
Seafood Groups Urge Governor Kotek to Prioritize State-Led Wind Energy Plans
8. Legislation
Intends to Protect Coastal WA from Impacts of Offshore Wind
9. Idaho:
Clearway Energy Celebrates Success at Cedar Creek Wind Farm Near Goshen
10. Local
Opposition to Renewable Energy Projects ‘Widespread & Growing’: Columbia
University Report
11. Wind
Explained: Where Wind Power Is Harnessed
12. Portland
to Provide Thousands of Free Air Conditioners This Summer; Those in Need Can
Call 311
13. WA
State: Quinault Nation Files Petition Seeking Removal of the Skookumchuck Dam
14. NOAA
Finalizing Impact Analysis of Alaska's Troll Fishery on Southern Resident
Killer Whales
15. Washington’s
Makah Tribe Could Once Again Harpoon Whales as U.S. Waives Conservation Law
16. Salmon,
Steelhead Season Extended on Columbia River
17. Federal
& State Agencies Initiate Lower Snake River Study, Public Input Wanted
18. WA
Carbon Prices Lower Than Expected in Second Year of Auctions
19. Tobacco-Like
Warning Label for Social Media Sought by U.S. Surgeon General Who Asks Congress
to Act
20. Senate
Confirms FERC Nominees, Restoring Agency to Full Commissioner Complement
21. Crazy
Weather Week Coming to the US: From Searing Heat to Snow. Yes, Snow.
22. Western
Washington Working to Mitigate Wildfire Risks This Summer
23. Pacific
Northwest: This Part of the U.S. Is at Highest Risk for a Devastating Tsunami
24. Guest
Essay: Oregon Is Facing Largest Energy Development Threat in Generations
25. Guest
Essay: Continuing with Downsized Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project Ignores
Idahoans’ Concerns
26.
Guest Essay: Dam Proposals
Word of the Day – The Horrible Haiku Edition
Joel’s Horrible Haiku – Oneiric /oh-NYE-rick/ Adjective – Of or relating to dreams: dreamy
The lost horizon
Peaceful oneiric visions
Shangri La, I’m home
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
California Legislators Break with Gov. Newsom Over
Loan to Keep State’s Last Nuclear Plant Running (Associated Press)
2.
Bill Gates Says "Support for Nuclear Power
Is Very Impressive in Both Parties" Amid New Plant in Wyoming (CBS News)
3.
Idaho Power May Shut Off Power to Prevent
Wildfires in Extreme Conditions. What We Know (Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/idaho-power-may-shut-off-100000141.html
4.
Typical Residential Electricity Bills Could Be
Slightly Higher This Summer (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62303
5.
Montana/North Dakota Energy: Where Electricity
Transmission & the Energy Transition Meet (Montana Free Press)
6.
Bonneville Power Administration’s Transmission
Field Services Tests New Real-Time Incident Reporting Tool (Bonneville Power
Administration)
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
7.
Oregon Seafood Groups Urge Governor Kotek to
Prioritize State-Led Wind Energy Plans (KPIC-TV, Roseburg, OR)
8.
Legislation Intends to Protect Coastal WA from Impacts
of Offshore Wind (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
https://www.kxro.com/legislation-intends-to-protect-coastal-wa-from-impacts-of-offshore-wind/
9.
Idaho: Clearway Energy Celebrates Success at Cedar
Creek Wind Farm Near Goshen (Idaho State Journal)
10.
Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Projects ‘Widespread
& Growing’: Columbia University Report (Utility Dive)
11.
Wind Explained: Where Wind Power Is Harnessed (U.S.
Energy Information Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is-harnessed.php
Conservation &
Efficiency
12.
Portland to Provide Thousands of Free Air Conditioners
This Summer; Those in Need Can Call 311 (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Fish & Wildlife
13.
WA State: Quinault Nation Files Petition Seeking
Removal of the Skookumchuck Dam (The Chronicle, Centralia, WA)
14.
NOAA Finalizing Impact Analysis of Alaska's Troll
Fishery on Southern Resident Killer Whales (Seafood Source)
15.
Washington’s Makah Tribe Could Once Again
Harpoon Whales as U.S. Waives Conservation Law (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/makah-tribe-whale-hunt-9b2e4a699431cc144f826dfbf6a9172a
16.
Salmon, Steelhead Season Extended on Columbia
River (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2024/jun/12/salmon-steelhead-season-extended-on-columbia-river/
Water, Water, Anywhere?
17.
Federal & State Agencies Initiate Lower Snake
River Study, Public Input Wanted (Elkhorn Media Group, Lagrande, OR)
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
18.
WA Carbon Prices Lower Than Expected in Second
Year of Auctions (Crosscut Seattle)
https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/06/wa-carbon-prices-lower-expected-second-year-auctions
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
19.
Tobacco-Like Warning Label for Social Media Sought
by U.S. Surgeon General Who Asks Congress to Act (Associated Press)
Management &
Governance
20.
Senate Confirms FERC Nominees, Restoring Agency to
Full Commissioner Complement (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/senate-confirms-ferc-nominees-rosner-see-chang/718896/
Other Things to Know
About Today
21.
Crazy Weather Week Coming to the US: From Searing
Heat to Snow. Yes, Snow. (Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crazy-weather-week-coming-us-172803064.html
22.
Western Washington Working to Mitigate Wildfire
Risks This Summer (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
23.
Pacific Northwest: This Part of the U.S. Is at Highest
Risk for a Devastating Tsunami (Cable News Network)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/part-us-highest-risk-devastating-123016950.html
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
24.
Guest Essay: Oregon Is Facing Largest Energy
Development Threat in Generations (The World, Coos Bay, OR)
25.
Guest Essay: Continuing with Downsized Lava
Ridge Wind Energy Project Ignores Idahoans’ Concerns (Idaho Statesman, Via AOL
News)
https://www.aol.com/news/continuing-downsized-lava-ridge-wind-100000336.html
26.
Guest Essay: Dam Proposals (Ag Information
Network of the West)
https://www.aginfo.net/report/59882/Idaho-Ag-Today/Dam-proposals
Alligators in the Sewer – Diversions
What Children’s
Drawings from the Walls of Pompeii Tell Us About the Roman Empire
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/children-drawings-pompeii-1.7227953
All Hail the Corn
Dog at the Original Pronto Pup, Oregon’s Shrine to Fried Food on a Stick
California Thieves Targeting
Lego Stores for Black Market Deals: 'Lego Larceny'
https://www.ktvu.com/news/california-thieves-targeting-lego-stores-black-market-deals-lego-larceny
Animal That Was
Model for Donkey in ‘Shrek’ Is Ailing. Fans Stepped In.
Song of the Day
Smashmouth – I'm a Believer
(Shrek Movie Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCP7bCJxxm8
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