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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Here's our roundup of today's top stories. It's Monday, May 5th. Starting with good news, the main road to the Ho Rainforest is set to reopen this week. Today, Governor Bob Ferguson posted online that the Upper Ho Road will be drivable Thursday at noon after being closed for

months. Part of it collapsed in December because of heavy rains. Trent Thurman owns Miller Tree

Inn close to the rainforest. Oh man, we're such a small town that any sort of delay of sorts,

it really affects our small tourist town.

And to hear the news, we're just excited.

Thurman's one of a few business owners in the area who donated money to help with repairs.

The National Park Service says nearly 460,000 people visited the rainforest last year.

As we start the week, Washington State is suing

the Trump administration again. Washington is among 17 states and Washington, D.C., who are suing

over the Fed's attempt to freeze wind energy development. We have this story today from

K&KX reporter Bellamy Pailthorpe.

The suit comes in response to an executive order issued in January that indefinitely halted all federal approvals necessary for the development of onshore and offshore wind energy.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said in a statement that the order kneecaps some of the fastest growing, most innovative, and cleanest resources in the country.

With nearly two dozen utility scale wind farms and operation, the complaint says wind is Washington's second largest source of renewable energy after hydroelectric power. In Oregon, 50 wind energy

facilities produce more than 13 percent of the electricity generated. Both states say the sector has

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