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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Fuel standard moved forward despite GOP opposition
On Environment and Natural
Resources. Democrats have
majorities necessary to pass
the bill in both the House and
SALEM — Democrats
Senate, if there is a party line
in the Oregon Legislature
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pushed ahead Monday with
Oregon already has a
a low-carbon fuel standard
low-carbon fuels law, but it
bill, despite objections from
is set to sunset in May before
Republicans who said they
the state actually implements
should wait for an investi-
the program. The Oregon En-
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sion voted in January to adopt
that supports the standard.
regulations that will require
Senate Majority Lead-
fuel importers and producers
er Sen. Diane Rosenbaum,
to reduce the carbon content
D-Portland, said the low-car-
of transportation fuels by 10
bon fuels legislation remains
percent over the next decade,
a top priority that Democrats
starting in January 2016.
want to pass early in the ses-
One way for companies
sion, and controversy sur-
to do this would be to blend
rounding Hayes’ contracts
more low-carbon ethanol and
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will not derail the bill.
biodiesel into transportation
“We think that there’s Oregon Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, speaks to the Committee on Environment and fuels. Under the new rules,
a process for dealing with Natural Resources during the opening day of the Oregon legislative session, Monday, in the Oregon Department of
that and it will work its way Salem. Democratic lawmakers want to extend Oregon’s low-carbon fuel standard, which Environmental Quality will
through,” Rosenbaum said is set to expire at the end of the year.
also establish a system for en-
of questions surrounding
tities such as electric vehicle
whether Hayes and Kitzhaber 3DPSOLQ 0HGLD *URXS &DSL- worked on low-carbon fu- $50,000, The Oregonian re- charging stations to generate
misused their public posi- tal Bureau reported last week els policy for the group, ported.
carbon credits; fuel producers
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sion is considering whether 2011 and 2012 through a fel- alition in 2014 to push for on Friday called for Demo- and diesel.
to launch a formal investiga- lowship with a Washington, an Oregon low-carbon fuel crats to suspend work on the
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Edwards, D-Eugene, said if
necessary the committee will
continue to take testimony on
Wednesday from people who
signed up to speak on Mon-
day.
Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Spring-
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support of the bill. Beyer said
that although some people say
an Oregon fuel standard will
have little impact on global
warming, “you’ve got to start
somewhere.”
Byer said the legislation
is an important piece of an
organized push to reduce car-
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Senate Republican Lead-
er Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John
Day, also is not a member of
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the hearing. Ferrioli said law-
makers will be in Salem until
the summer, and he urged the
committee to take its time to
vet the fuel standard bill.
“I would suggest to you
that if someone wants to run
this bill this week, they’re do-
ing Oregonians a disservice
because there are too many
unanswered questions,” Ferr-
ioli said.
Second Harper Lee novel to be published this summer
NEW YORK (AP) — “To
Kill a Mockingbird” will not
be Harper Lee’s only published
book after all.
Publisher Harper announced
Tuesday that “Go Set a Watch-
man,” a novel the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author completed
in the 1950s and put aside, will be
released July 14. Rediscovered
last fall, “Go Set a Watchman”
is essentially a sequel to “To Kill
a Mockingbird,” although it was
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Reactions have ranged from
a euphoric Oprah Winfrey, who
issued a statement saying “I
couldn’t be happier if my name
was Scout,” to skepticism that
the new book will be of the same
quality as “Mockingbird.” Lee
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noted that Lee was a “beginning
author” when she was writing
“Watchman.”
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work in more than 50 years,
among the longest gaps in history
for a major writer. The publisher
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copies.
“In the mid-1950s, I com-
pleted a novel called ‘Go Set a
Watchman,”’ the 88-year-old
Lee said in a statement issued by
Harper. “It features the character
known as Scout as an adult wom-
an, and I thought it a pretty decent
effort. My editor, who was tak-
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childhood, persuaded me to write
a novel (what became ‘To Kill a
Mockingbird’) from the point of
view of the young Scout.
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did as I was told. I hadn’t realized
it (the original book) had sur-
vived, so was surprised and de-
lighted when my dear friend and
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it. After much thought and hesita-
tion, I shared it with a handful of
people I trust and was pleased to
hear that they considered it wor-
thy of publication. I am humbled
and amazed that this will now be
published after all these years.”
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closed. The deal was negotiated
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Harper’s parent company, Mi-
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Publishers. “Watchman” will be
is set in Lee’s famed Maycomb,
Alabama, during the mid-1950s,
20 years after “To Kill a Mock-
ingbird” and roughly contempo-
raneous with the time that Lee
was writing the story. The civil
rights movement was taking hold
in her home state. The Supreme
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in 1954 that segregated schools
were unconstitutional, and the
arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 led
to the yearlong Montgomery bus
boycott.
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“Scout (Jean Louise Finch)
Harper Lee, author of the has returned to Maycomb from
Pulitzer Prize-winning nov- New York to visit her father, At-
el, “To kill a Mockingbird,” ticus,” the publisher’s announce-
smiles during a ceremo- ment reads. “She is forced to
ny honoring the four new grapple with issues both personal
members of the Alabama and political as she tries to under-
Academy of Honor at the stand her father’s attitude toward
Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., society, and her own feelings
Aug. 20, 2007. Publisher about the place where she was
Harper announced Tuesday born and spent her childhood.”
that “Go Set a Watchman,” a
Lee herself is a Monroeville,
novel Lee completed in the Alabama native who lived in
1950s and put aside, will be New York in the 1950s and re-
released July 14. It will be turned to her hometown. Ac-
her second published book. cording to the publisher, the book
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published in the United King- it, with no revisions. By midday
dom by William Heinemann, Tuesday, “Watchman” was in the
an imprint of Penguin Random top 20 on Barnes & Noble.com.
House.
Independent sellers also expect
According to publisher strong interest.
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“To a lot of us in bookselling,
manuscript at a “secure location ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ remains
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original typescript of ‘To Kill a and it sure is exciting to know
Mockingbird.”’ The new book we are about to learn more of the
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of the American Booksellers As-
sociation, the trade group for the
country’s independent stores.
Shields, whose “Mocking-
bird: A Portrait of Harper Lee”
came out in 2006, said that
“Mockingbird” had required ex-
tensive editing and doubted that
“Watchman” has “the tight struc-
ture” of her other book.
“But if we have any of her
voice, her compassion for people
and her message about under-
standing the other in there, we’ll
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said.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is
among the most beloved novels
in history, with worldwide sales
topping 40 million copies. It was
released on July 11, 1960, won
the Pulitzer Prize and was adapt-
ed into a 1962 movie of the same
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1960s, when she told one re-
porter that she wanted “to leave
some record of small-town, mid-
dle-class Southern life.” Until
now, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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that goal.
“This is a remarkable literary
event,” Harper publisher Jon-
athan Burnham said in a state-
ment. “The existence of ‘Go Set
a Watchman’ was unknown until
recently, and its discovery is an
extraordinary gift to the many
readers and fans of ‘To Kill a
Mockingbird.’ Reading in many
ways like a sequel to Harper
Lee’s classic novel, it is a com-
pelling and ultimately moving
narrative about a father and a
daughter’s relationship, and the
life of a small Alabama town liv-
ing through the racial tensions of
the 1950s.”
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name, starring Gregory Peck in
an Oscar-winning performance
as the courageous attorney Atti-
cus Finch. Robert Duvall, who
played the reclusive Boo Radley
in the movie, issued a statement
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a “pivotal point” for him and he
was “looking forward” to the
new book.
Although
occasionally
banned over the years because
of its language and racial themes,
“Mockingbird” has become a
standard for reading clubs and
middle schools and high schools.
The absence of a second book
from Lee only seemed to en-
hance the appeal of “Mocking-
bird.”
Lee’s publisher said the au-
thor is unlikely to do any public-
ity for the book. She has rarely
spoken to the media since the
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