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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015
Supporters can’t agree on low-carbon measures
posed rules last month that
would follow California’s lead
to include the impact of new
demand for biofuels crops such
as corn and soybeans. This
factor is known as the indirect
land-use change and as recent-
ly as January, Department of
Environmental Quality staff
said existing methodologies
were inadequate to calculate
it. However, Cory-Ann Wind,
an air quality manager for the
Department of Environmental
Quality who works on imple-
mentation of the low-carbon
fuels program, said Wednesday
that California recently updated
the models it uses to calculate
the carbon impact of land-use
changes, based on extensive
peer-reviewed research.
“I feel very comfortable
with the work they’ve done
to develop the most recent of
their numbers, and that’s why
we recommended including
the California (carbon intensi-
ty) values into the Oregon pro-
gram,” Wind said.
The deadline to submit
comments on the latest pro-
posed fuel standard rules is 4
p.m. Wednesday . As of Thurs-
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
On its face, Oregon’s
low-carbon fuel standard has a
simple promise: it will reduce
carbon emissions from trans-
portation fuel used in the state
by 10 percent over a decade,
starting next year .
As it turns out, even sup-
porters of the underlying law
disagree over how the state
should calculate that reduction.
The standard is supposed to
account for the total amount of
carbon generated by gas, etha-
nol, electricity and other fuels
across their life cycles, from
the ¿ eld or power plant to the
tailpipe.
Fuel importers and produc-
ers will likely meet the stan-
dards through a combination
of cleaner biofuels blended into
gas and diesel, as well as car-
bon reduction credits the state
will issue to owners of electric
charging stations and other al-
ternative fuel infrastructure.
California models
The Oregon Department
of Environmental Quality pro-
day afternoon, no one had sub-
mitted comments on the rules.
California used two models
to estimate land-use impacts:
one is an economic model that
calculates the impact of fuel
policy on agricultural and other
real estate prices, and the other
quanti¿ es the amount of carbon
emissions that occurs when
land is converted to grow biofu-
el feedstock. The carbon impact
occurs when land where carbon
was sequestered, such as a for-
est, is converted to farmland.
Geoff Cooper is senior vice
president at the Renewable
Fuels Association, a national
ethanol industry group with of-
¿ ces in Washington, D.C. and
St. Louis. Last month, Cooper
told The Oregonian that if Or-
egon adopts the indirect land-
use change model to calculate
carbon emissions, the ethanol
group will work with the pe-
troleum industry to repeal the
low-carbon fuel standard.
“They’re saying, ‘Well,
land we use for soybeans and
pasture here is now being used
to grow corn for ethanol so a
farmer somewhere else in the
world now has to convert some
land to make up for that lost
soybean pasture here,” Cooper
said . “The real world data is
showing that isn’t happening.”
Wind disagreed and said
“satellite data for land use con-
version now is great.”
The Department of Environ-
mental Quality proposal would
attribute a greater carbon im-
pact to corn ethanol compared
with existing rules, and Coo-
per said corn ethanol re¿ neries
such as 3aci¿ c Ethanol, Inc. in
Boardman would face reduced
demand from companies that
import gas into the state.
“If you look at the ethanol
that’s used in the state of Ore-
gon today, it’s primarily corn-
based ethanol produced at a
facility there in Boardman, as
well as facilities elsewhere in
the United States,” Cooper said.
Some prefer
federal research
Cooper said if Oregon is go-
ing to include the indirect land-
use impact, it should rely on
modeling by researchers at the
Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital is hosting a community
Pink Out tonight to honor
breast cancer survivors and
to remember those who have
been lost to the disease.
The event is at 5:30 p.m. at
the Astoria Column, which is
turning pink for the month of
October. Organizers hope to
raise awareness about the im-
portance of early detection in
the ¿ ght against breast cancer.
A short program is
planned, including remarks
from CMH cancer care pro-
viders and breast cancer sur-
vivors.
CMH offers ¿ nancial
assistance to provide mam-
mograms for women who
qualify. To donate, or for
assistance, call the Breast
Health Program at 503-338-
4520.
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Juanita Belle McCoy
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Tonight's Sky: Antares the Scorpion is quite low
in the southwest as twilight fades this evening.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
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Juanita Belle McCoy, 75, of Gearhart, Oregon, and became involved in the Seaside American Le-
gion.
passed away on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.
Juanita is survived by two children, Kenneth
She was born on June 15, 1940, in Freewater,
McCoy and his wife, Allison, of War-
Oregon, to the late Leonard Horrell and
renton, Oregon, and Dorinda Daniel
Opal Case Haskins. Juanita grew up
and her husband, Rick, of Longview,
and graduated high school in Seaside,
Washington. She has ¿ ve grandchil-
Oregon. She married Gordon “Shorty”
dren, Tonya Robinson and her husband,
McCoy on Oct. 18, 1959. Her husband,
Stuart, of Warrenton, Oregon; Daniel
Shorty, preceded her in death in 2006.
Weaver of Eugene, Oregon; David
Juanita and her family traveled of-
Weaver of Newport, Oregon; Matthew
ten while her husband was enlisted in
McCoy and his wife, Stacy, of Gear-
the Navy, until his retirement in 1977.
hart, Oregon; and Devin Nicole Brown,
She was mostly a homemaker, but oc-
who proceeded her in death. She also
casionally worked at Cornet’s Store in
Seaside when her husband was at war, Juanita McCoy has ¿ ve great-grand children, Garrett
McCoy, Tanner Robinson, Hannah
and after he retired. She enjoyed cro-
Robinson and Kaitlynn Robinson.
cheting, and would often give her crafts
The funeral will take place at 11 a.m. Wednes-
as gifts or donations.
In 1996, Juanita and her husband of¿ cially re- day, Oct. 28, 2015 at the Ocean View Cemetery
tired, purchased a ¿ fth wheel, and headed for the Chapel in Warrenton, Oregon. Family and friends
open road settling mostly in Arizona, Nevada and are invited to the residence of Kenneth and Allison
California. One of her fondest locations was in McCoy following the service for hors d’oeuvres.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in charge of
Sauvie Island, Oregon, where she and her husband
volunteered for the state. After Juanita’s husband the arrangements. An online guest book may be
passed away, she relocated to Gearhart, Oregon, signed at www.hughes-ransom.com
Oct. 13, 2015
SINGH-ANAND,
Jeva
Eli, 49, of Astoria, died in As-
toria. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
Fronts
Cold
Warm
ton Mortuary in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
Oct. 17, 2015
SCHROTT, Frank Joseph,
85, of Seaside, died in Seaside.
Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service in Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
B, 725 S. Wahanna Road,
Seaside.
Clatsop County Human
Services Advisory Council,
4 to 5:30 p.m., 800 Exchange
St., Room 430.
Northwest Regional Ed-
ucation Service District
Board, 5:30 p.m. dinner, 6
p.m. regular meeting fol-
lowed by executive session,
NWRESD, Tillamook Ser-
vice Center, 2515 Third St.,
Tillamook.
Shoreline Sanitary Dis-
trict Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart
Hertig Station, 33496 West
Lake Lane, Warrenton.
Seaside School District,
6 p.m., 1801 S. Franklin St.
Port of Astoria Commis-
sion, 6 p.m., old Port of¿ ces,
422 Gateway Ave.
Seaside Planning Com-
mission Work Session, 7
p.m., Seaside City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Public meetings
MONDAY
Clatsop County Wet-
lands Advisory Committee,
3 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington
Building, 857 Commercial
St., Astoria.
Knappa School Board,
5:30 p.m., Knappa High
School library, 41535 Old
U.S. Highway 30.
Astoria City Council, 6
p.m., strategic plan work ses-
sion, 7 p.m., regular meeting,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Union Health District,
8 a.m., Providence Seaside
Hospital, Education Room
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gion.” Climate Solutions is a
nonpro¿ t with of¿ ces in Ore-
gon and Washington state that
promotes renewable energy
and other policies to address
global warming.
“The Clean Fuels Program
is an important part of Ore-
gon’s plan to meet its legislated
greenhouse gas reduction tar-
gets,” Sheeran wrote. “The pro-
gram is designed to reward the
cleanest fuels. For this reason, it
is important to consider the full
life cycle of carbon impacts of
fuels in the program.”
Wind said the inclusion of
the indirect land-use impact is
not the only change in the latest
proposed rules to implement
the fuel standard. The Depart-
ment of Environmental Quality
also wants to update the carbon
value for natural gas, because
of new research that shows
more “fugitive methane” es-
caping from fracked wells.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO Me-
dia Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
OBITUARIES
Pink Out to honor breast cancer survivors
The Daily Astorian
U.S. Department of Energy’s
Argonne National Laboratory
in Illinois, rather than models
from California.
Two other groups that
pushed for lawmakers to make
the low-carbon fuel standard
permanent are supportive of the
state’s proposal to include land-
use impacts in carbon values.
“These measures of overall
carbon pollution are the result
of years of input from numer-
ous businesses, organizations
and scienti¿ c experts,” Oregon
Environmental Council com-
munications director Jessica
Moskovitz wrote in an email.
Moskovitz said the models
the environmental agency plans
to use are “the most accurate
and honest way to assess the
carbon pollution of transporta-
tion fuels.”
Kristen Sheeran, Oregon
director for Climate Solutions,
wrote in an email that one
reason the group supports the
low-carbon fuel standard is the
“incentives it provides to grow
clean fuels markets in our re-
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Tourist Adviso-
ry Committee, 3 p.m., Sea-
side City Hall, 989 Broad-
way.
Sunset Empire Park &
Recreation District Board
Meeting, 5:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Community Cen-
ter, 1225 Ave. A, Seaside.
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