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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Fed Cuts Interest
Rates by 0.25% & Sets Stage for More Cuts (Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/fed-cuts-interest-rates-by-0-25-and-sets-stage-for-more-cuts/
Just How Deadly
Could a Parasite Be to Yukon River Chinook Salmon? U.S. Biologists Are Trying
to Find Out (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-chinook-salmon-disease-1.7632939?cmp=rss
Eighty Percent of
the Inland Pacific Northwest is in Extreme Drought (KREM-TV, Spokane, WA)
With Nuclear
Projects Coming to Utah, Gov. Cox Hopes for Rural Jobs – That’s No Easy Task
(Utah News Dispatch)
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/17/nuclear-projects-coming-to-utah-rural-jobs/
Pacific Northwest
Continues to Lead on Energy Efficiency: Northwest Power and Conservation
Council (American Public Power Association)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. With
Nuclear Projects Coming to Utah, Gov. Cox Hopes for Rural Jobs – That’s No Easy
Task
2. Press
Release: California Amends Law to Join Its Neighbors in a Large Western-Based
Energy Market
3. Request
to PacifiCorp to Accelerate Clean Energy Developments Could Save Ratepayers
Millions
4. The
Solar Industry Threw a Party in Vegas – It Actually Wasn’t Sad
5. Pacific
Northwest Continues to Lead on Energy Efficiency: Northwest Power and
Conservation Council
6. NW
Power & Conservation Council Staff Will Analyze the Potential for Emerging
Technologies in Energy Efficiency for Ninth Plan
7. Republicans
Take Aim at DOE’s Appliance Efficiency Program
8. Are
Your LED Bulbs Dying Early? We Found the Cause
9. Just
How Deadly Could a Parasite Be to Yukon River Chinook Salmon? U.S. Biologists
Are Trying to Find Out
10. Gov.
Dunleavy Administration Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Decide the Future of
Subsistence Fishing in Alaska
11. Grant
& Chelan PUDs' Trap-and-Transport Pilot Project Bolsters Okanagan Sockeye
During Drought Years
12. Eighty
Percent of the Inland Pacific Northwest is in Extreme Drought
13. WA
State: CCA Compliance Could Cost Spokane Over $210 Million to Renovate
Waste-to-Energy Plant
14. Broadband
Expansion across Idaho: How New Grants Will Revolutionize Connectivity for
Travelers Across the State
15. It’s
‘Do or Die’ for Electric Vehicle Maker Rivian as It Breaks Ground on a $5
Billion Plant
16. Alaska
Attorney General Argues Chugach Electric Round Up for Charity Program Raises
Free Speech Concerns
17. FEMA
Is Vital for Disaster Recovery but Needs Crucial Reforms, Co-op Leaders Say
18. Montana:
Gov. Gianforte Names Members of Energy Task Force
19.
Fed Cuts Interest Rates by 0.25% & Sets
Stage for More Cuts
Word of the Day – Horrible Haiku Edition
Redolent \RED-duh-lunt\ Adjective - 1: exuding fragrance: aromatic 2a: full of a specified fragrance: scented b: evocative, suggestive.
“Little Trees”; Axe Spray
Old cars and teen angst on show
Redolent device
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
With Nuclear Projects Coming to Utah, Gov. Cox Hopes
for Rural Jobs – That’s No Easy Task (Utah News Dispatch)
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/17/nuclear-projects-coming-to-utah-rural-jobs/
2.
Press Release: California Amends Law to Join Its
Neighbors in a Large Western-Based Energy Market (NW Energy Coalition)
Renewable Energy &
Self Storage
3.
Request to PacifiCorp to Accelerate Clean Energy
Developments Could Save Ratepayers Millions (Utah News Dispatch)
4.
The Solar Industry Threw a Party in Vegas – It
Actually Wasn’t Sad (Canary Media)
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/re-2025-conference-clean-energy-industry-outlook
Conservation &
Efficiency
5.
Pacific Northwest Continues to Lead on Energy
Efficiency: Northwest Power and Conservation Council (American Public Power
Association)
6.
NW Power & Conservation Council Staff Will
Analyze the Potential for Emerging Technologies in Energy Efficiency for Ninth
Plan (NW Power & Conservation Council)
https://www.nwcouncil.org/news/2025/08/29/ninth-plan-emerging-technologies-energy-efficiency/
7.
Republicans Take Aim at DOE’s Appliance
Efficiency Program (Utility Dive)
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/republicans-doe-appliance-efficiency-program-hearing/759829/
8.
Are Your LED Bulbs Dying Early? We Found the
Cause (C|Net News)
https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/are-your-led-bulbs-dying-early-we-found-out-the-cause/
Fish & Wildlife
9.
Just How Deadly Could a Parasite Be to Yukon
River Chinook Salmon? U.S. Biologists Are Trying to Find Out (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-chinook-salmon-disease-1.7632939?cmp=rss
10.
Gov. Dunleavy Administration Asks U.S. Supreme
Court to Decide the Future of Subsistence Fishing in Alaska (Alaska Beacon)
11.
Grant & Chelan PUDs' Trap-and-Transport
Pilot Project Bolsters Okanagan Sockeye During Drought Years (Source ONE News,
Ephrata, WA)
Water, Water, Anywhere?
12.
Eighty Percent of the Inland Pacific Northwest is
in Extreme Drought (KREM-TV, Spokane, WA)
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
13.
WA State: CCA Compliance Could Cost Spokane Over
$210 Million to Renovate Waste-to-Energy Plant (The Center Square)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_ac79345c-bf93-476e-9a44-915968688bb8.html
London Calling
–Telecommunications
14.
Broadband Expansion across Idaho: How New Grants
Will Revolutionize Connectivity for Travelers Across the State (Travel &
Tour World)
I Sing the Car Electric
15.
It’s ‘Do or Die’ for Electric Vehicle Maker
Rivian as It Breaks Ground on a $5 Billion Plant (Associated Press)
Public Relations,
Marketing & Media
16.
Alaska Attorney General Argues Chugach Electric Round
Up for Charity Program Raises Free Speech Concerns (Anchorage Daily News, AK –
Paywall Advisory)
Politics, Governance,
and Management
17.
FEMA Is Vital for Disaster Recovery but Needs
Crucial Reforms, Co-op Leaders Say (National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association)
18.
Montana: Gov. Gianforte Names Members of Energy
Task Force (The Daily Montanan)
https://dailymontanan.com/briefs/gov-gianforte-names-members-of-energy-task-force/
Other Things to Know
About Today
19.
Fed Cuts Interest Rates by 0.25% & Sets
Stage for More Cuts (Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/fed-cuts-interest-rates-by-0-25-and-sets-stage-for-more-cuts/
Diversions - Alligators in the Sewer
Robert Redford,
Oscar-Winning Director, Actor & Indie Patriarch, Dies at 89
https://apnews.com/article/robert-redford-dies-be240607d3f2f3374c00a3bdc79154e4
Beloved California Octopus
Showered with Love & Farewells as She Spends Final Days Caring for Eggs
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ghost-octopus-1.7634631
Stunt Performer
Pulls a Car While on Fire to Break World Record
Cheating scandal
nearly sinks World Stone Skimming Championships
Songs of the Day – The Robert Redford Edition
Scott Joplin – The
Entertainer (The Sting Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WxfjWnuEno
John Barry – Out of
Africa Overture (Movie Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pptXIK-NNM
B.J. Thomas - Raindrops
Keep Falling on My Head (Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySlY1XKlhM
Barbara Streisand –
The Way We Were (Movie Soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqYuMkbsGvw
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