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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
EPA Set to Roll
Back Rules That Limit Greenhouse Gases & Mercury from U.S. Power Plants
(Associated Press)
Power Shutoffs
Banned During Extreme Summer Heat in Oregon (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Data Center Demand
to Push U.S. Power Use to Record Highs In 2025, ‘26, EIA Says (Reuters)
Oregon Clean Energy
Company Files for Bankruptcy, Claiming More Than $300 Million in Debt (The
Oregonian, Portland, OR)
Utility
Demand-Response Phone Messages Do Not Need Additional Customer Consent: FCC
(Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/utility-demand-response-messages-customer-consent-FCC-EEI/750262/
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Power
Shutoffs Banned During Extreme Summer Heat in Oregon
2. Data
Center Demand to Push U.S. Power Use to Record Highs In 2025, ‘26, EIA Says
3. Electric
Generators Plan More Natural Gas-Fired Capacity After Few Additions in 2024
4. Why
Two Regional Grid Operators Are Racing to Pool the Power of Western States Like
Colorado
5. SoCal
Rejects Plan to Phase Down New Gas Furnaces & Water Heaters
6. Jacobs
Selected to Strengthen Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure for
Bonneville Power Administration
7. Oregon
Clean Energy Company Files for Bankruptcy, Claiming More Than $300 Million in
Debt
8. Sunnova
& Mosaic Bankruptcies Highlight Deepening Rooftop Solar Woes
9. Montrose
Is the Only County in Colorado with a Ban on Large-Scale Solar Still in Place
10. Next
Wave Power: The Ocean’s Role in Renewable Energy
11. Five
Simple (And Cheap) Things to Make Your House Use Less Energy
12. How
Your Air Conditioner Can Help the Power Grid, Rather Than Overloading It
13. Six
Gray Whales Dying in San Francisco in One Week Has Authorities Scrambling for
Answers
14. EPA
Set to Roll Back Rules That Limit Greenhouse Gases & Mercury from U.S.
Power Plants
15. Final
Steps. Eastern Washington Radioactive Waste Tanks Linked to Treatment Plant
16. Major
U.S. Climate Website Likely to Be Shut Down After Almost All Staff Fired
17. President
Trump’s Broadband Program Overhaul Favors Musk Tech, Strips Low-Cost Plans
18. Millennials
See Fiber Internet as a Must-Have, Boomers Aren’t Sure: Report
19. President
Trump to Sign Resolutions Nixing California’s Electric Vehicle Rules, Sources
20. Utility
Demand-Response Phone Messages Do Not Need Additional Customer Consent: FCC
21. Climate
Outlooks: Three-Month Seasonal Forecasts Jul-Aug-Sep 2025
22. Utilities
Await U.S. Department of Energy Action on Loans to Boost Grid
23. U.S.
Senate Enters Pivotal Week on Reconciliation
24. Guest
Essay: BPA Remains the Foundation of the Northwest’s Affordable, Clean Energy
Economy
25. Podcast:
It’s (Still) Not Easy Going Green – Bonus Episode
26.
Flexible Transmission Allocation Would Allow
Western Solar Projects to Proceed
Word of the Day
Rescind \rih-SIND\ Verb – 1: to take away: remove *2: take back: cancel 3: to make void (as an act) by action of the enacting authority or a superior authority: repeal.
“Getting toothpaste back into the tube,” expounded the physics teacher, “is probably easier than rescinding an uncontrolled nuclear reactor. But for extra credit, write a 2,000-word essay on which of these is the more annoying of the two.” He said. “You have ten minutes.”
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Power Shutoffs Banned During Extreme Summer Heat
in Oregon (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
2.
Data Center Demand to Push U.S. Power Use to
Record Highs In 2025, ‘26, EIA Says (Reuters)
3.
Electric Generators Plan More Natural Gas-Fired
Capacity After Few Additions in 2024 (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65464
4.
Why Two Regional Grid Operators Are Racing to
Pool the Power of Western States Like Colorado (The Colorado Sun, Denver, CO)
https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/09/wholesale-markets-colorado-electricity-power/
5.
SoCal Rejects Plan to Phase Down New Gas
Furnaces & Water Heaters (Canary Media)
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/socal-gas-heaters-rules-nox
6.
Jacobs Selected to Strengthen Transmission and
Distribution Infrastructure for Bonneville Power Administration (Yahoo! News)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jacobs-selected-strengthen-transmission-distribution-114500153.html
Renewable Energy &
Self Storage
7.
Oregon Clean Energy Company Files for
Bankruptcy, Claiming More Than $300 Million in Debt (The Oregonian, Portland, OR)
8.
Sunnova & Mosaic Bankruptcies Highlight
Deepening Rooftop Solar Woes (Canary Media)
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/sunnova-mosaic-bankruptcies-industry-challenges
9.
Montrose Is the Only County in Colorado with a Ban
on Large-Scale Solar Still in Place (Aspen Public Radio, CO)
10.
Next Wave Power: The Ocean’s Role in Renewable
Energy (MSN News)
Conservation &
Efficiency
11.
Five Simple (And Cheap) Things to Make Your
House Use Less Energy (National Public Radio)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5340706/homes-energy-tips-heating-air-conditioning
12.
How Your Air Conditioner Can Help the Power
Grid, Rather Than Overloading It (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/how-your-air-conditioner-can-help-the-power-grid-20371802.php
Fish & Wildlife
13.
Six Gray Whales Dying in San Francisco in One Week
Has Authorities Scrambling for Answers (ABC News)
Environmental Afflatus –
Clean Up on Aisle Three
14.
EPA Set to Roll Back Rules That Limit Greenhouse
Gases & Mercury from U.S. Power Plants (Associated Press)
15.
Final Steps. Eastern Washington Radioactive
Waste Tanks Linked to Treatment Plant (Tri-City Herald, WA – Via Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/final-steps-eastern-washington-radioactive-190149407.html
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
16.
Major U.S. Climate Website Likely to Be Shut
Down After Almost All Staff Fired (The Guardian, UK)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa
London Calling
–Telecommunications
17.
President Trump’s Broadband Program Overhaul
Favors Musk Tech, Strips Low-Cost Plans (Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-broadband-program-overhaul-favors-090017073.html
18.
Millennials See Fiber Internet as a Must-Have,
Boomers Aren’t Sure: Report (Telecompetitor)
I Sing the Car Electric
19.
President Trump to Sign Resolutions Nixing California’s
Electric Vehicle Rules, Sources (Reuters)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-sign-resolutions-nixing-californias-235058402.html
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
20.
Utility Demand-Response Phone Messages Do Not
Need Additional Customer Consent: FCC (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/utility-demand-response-messages-customer-consent-FCC-EEI/750262/
Barrel O’ Green
Potpourri – Seething Stew of Science
21.
Climate Outlooks: Three-Month Seasonal Forecasts
Jul-Aug-Sep 2025 (National Weather Service)
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php
Politics, Governance,
and Management
22.
Utilities Await U.S. Department of Energy Action
on Loans to Boost Grid (E&E News/Politico)
https://www.eenews.net/articles/utilities-await-doe-action-on-loans-to-boost-grid/
23.
U.S. Senate Enters Pivotal Week on
Reconciliation (Politico)
https://www.eenews.net/articles/senate-enters-pivotal-week-on-reconciliation/
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
24.
Guest Essay: BPA Remains the Foundation of the
Northwest’s Affordable, Clean Energy Economy (LinkedIn)
25.
Podcast: It’s (Still) Not Easy Going Green – Bonus
Episode (Cascade PBS)
26.
Flexible Transmission Allocation Would Allow Western
Solar Projects to Proceed (PV Magazine)
Diversions - Alligators in the Sewer
Brian Wilson, Beach
Boys Visionary Leader & Summer's Poet Laureate, Dies at 82
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/brian-wilson-beach-boys-visionary-165711806.html
300,000 Honeybees
Found During Remodel of Historic Home in Downtown Puyallup
https://www.yahoo.com/news/300-000-honey-bees-found-184653566.html
A Contractor
Stumbles Upon a Byzantine Tomb Complex Under a Destroyed Syrian House
https://apnews.com/article/syria-civil-war-byzantine-tomb-discovery-824ced51a4176f1d02c83b0b4d0e6d16
Yellowstone: Bison Gores
Man After Visitors Get Too Close
Song of the Day
The Beach Boys – Good
Vibrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdt0SOqPJcg
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