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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017
Lawmaker ousted to prevent
‘no’ vote on education plan
States of
Washington,
California,
New York,
unite to back
climate pact
Democrat
could have
blocked budget
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
President Donald Trump arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House Thursday to
speak about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord.
the world to address the chal-
lenge of climate change. While
Oregon is a small state, we can
play a huge role in fi nding
innovative solutions to pre-
serve our natural resources,
reduce carbon, and create a
cleaner, and greener energy
mix of the future.”
Trump formally announced
his decision to leave the his-
toric international agree-
ment after months of teasing
the action. He criticized the
pact as a job-killer that put
the United States as an unfair
advantage.
It may be years, however,
before the country can for-
mally exit the deal, but Trump
said he’ll immediately halt
implementation. He said he
would consider re-entry if the
U.S. could get a better deal.
Republican politicians and
representatives of the coal
industry cheered Trump’s
action.
“President Trump’s cou-
rageous decision to exit the
Paris accord recognizes that
the United States is not legally
bound to an Obama-era agree-
ment that set unrealistic emis-
sions targets at the expense of
billions of American taxpayer
dollars without the approval of
Congress,” said Texas Attor-
ney General Ken Paxton,
who joined nine other states
in urging Trump to leave the
agreement.
Under the Paris agreement,
negotiated during former Pres-
ident Barack Obama’s tenure,
the United States voluntarily
committed to reducing pollut-
ing emissions by 1.6 billion
tons by 2025.
The Democratic governors’
new pact commits to that same
goal, which requires a 26 to 28
percent reduction in emissions
from 2005 levels.
Specifi c targets haven’t
been set for each state. Califor-
nia, New York and Washing-
ton state together account for
about 10 percent of the coun-
try’s greenhouse gas emis-
sions, Brown’s offi ce said.
California is already work-
ing to reduce greenhouse
Oregon governor
also critical of
President Trump
By KATHLEEN
RONAYNE
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Three Democratic governors
said Thursday they won’t let
the United States back away
from a commitment to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions,
despite President Donald
Trump’s decision to withdraw
from an international pact.
“This is an insane move
by this president,” Califor-
nia Gov. Jerry Brown said,
blasting the decision as “devi-
ant behavior from the highest
offi ce in the land.”
Brown joined Gov. Jay Ins-
lee of Washington state and
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New
York to form the U.S. Climate
Alliance to uphold the Paris
climate agreement, a pact
involving nearly 200 nations
aimed at slowing the warming
of the planet.
The three states already
belong to an emissions reduc-
tion pact of states and cities
worldwide, but Thursday’s
action marked a direct stand
against the Trump administra-
tion and a formal commitment
to upholding the targets of the
Paris agreement.
Connecticut Gov. Dan Mal-
loy and Virginia Gov. Terry
McAuliffe also expressed
interest in joining the new pact.
“We governors are going to
step into this cockpit and fl y
the plane,” Inslee told report-
ers. “The president wants to
ground it — we’re going to fl y
it.”
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
also affi rmed the state’s com-
mitment to combat climate
change. “It is irresponsible
for the president to deny these
real-world implications,” the
governor said in a statement.
“But I will continue to work
with leaders on the West Coast,
across the country, and around
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PORTLAND — Relatives
of a man accused of stabbing
two men to death who tried to
defend two women from an
anti-Muslim rant have offered
their condolences to the vic-
tims’ families.
In a letter, Jeremy Chris-
tian’s family expressed sym-
Associated Press
SALEM — Suction
dredge mining could be per-
manently banned from west-
ern Oregon’s wild salmon
habitat under a bill that has
passed the state House.
The bill creating stream
protection passed Wednes-
day and is awaiting Gov. Kate
Brown’s pledged signature,
The Mail Tribune reported.
Suction dredging uses
fl oating vacuums to suck
gravel from a stream bot-
toms. Material vacuumed by
the dredges then go through
sluices so miners can strain
out gold and other heavy met-
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Prosecutors say Chris-
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one of whom was wearing a
hijab.
After the girls moved
away from Christian, he got
into a confrontation with
other passengers. Prosecutors
say he fatally stabbed two
men and wounded a third.
say the process damages spawn-
ing grounds and rearing habitat.
Miners have argued current laws
already protect salmon habitat
and that no peer-reviewed study
on suction dredging proves it
ruins salmon habitats exists.
The bill would make perma-
nent 2016’s temporary ban on
suction dredging within creeks
and rivers deemed “essen-
tial salmon habitat.” The bill
also bans dredging in habitat of
Pacifi c lamprey, which are also
present in the Rogue Basin.
In 2013, the Legislature
passed a bill detailing new dredg-
ing restrictions, capping the num-
ber of dredging permits offered
annually and limiting some of
the times, locations and manner
for how dredgers operate.
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Schools have increases in
unavoidable costs such as
employee health care, con-
tracted pay raises and pen-
sions and other cost hikes
such as utilities, according to
the association . Hernandez
said he wants to see schools
receive at least $8.4 billion
to maintain existing service
levels.
Some other subcommit-
tee members who voted “yes”
agreed that the education bud-
get was too low but said a
greater allocation could be
added later, if lawmakers are
successful in raising more rev-
enue in the next several weeks.
Rep. Julie Parrish, R-West
Lynn, who voted “no” on the
budget, said the Legislature
has consistently increased
education funding for schools
with few results, because
much of the money goes
toward pension and health
care costs, rather than the
classroom.
“Putting more money into
education has not yielded bet-
ter outcomes,” Parrish said.
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gas emissions by 40 percent
from 1990 levels by 2030,
and Brown has cast himself
as Trump’s chief foil on cli-
mate policy. It’s unclear when
discussions between the three
governors began, but they
announced their new pact
within an hour of Trump’s
announcement.
Brown is about to begin a
trip to China to discuss emis-
sions-reduction policies with
other leaders and has prom-
ised to fi ll the void left by
the Trump administration. At
home, Brown is battling to
reauthorize a cap-and-trade
program that expires in 2020,
a key piece of his political
legacy. He’s said California’s
economy is proof that com-
bating climate change isn’t the
economic deadweight Trump
suggests.
Washington state is also
moving ahead with capping
carbon emissions and requir-
ing power plants and oil refi n-
eries to reduce emissions over
time. In New York, Cuomo
announced he would use exec-
utive orders to ensure his state
continues to abide by the Paris
agreement.
West Virginia Coal Asso-
ciation Senior Vice Presi-
dent Chris Hamilton said U.S.
withdrawal from the Paris
accord would build confi -
dence in U.S. mining and
industry even if it wouldn’t
make major changes on the
ground. Trump promised
during his campaign to bring
back coal mining jobs.
“I think it slows down this
rush toward punitive mea-
sures against the United States
industrial base and mining
industry,” Hamilton said.
Associated Press writers
David Klepper in Albany, New
York, Rachel La Corte in Olym-
pia, Washington, and Michael
Virtanen in Morgantown, West
Virginia, contributed.
SALEM — An e ast Port-
land Democrat who threat-
ened to oppose the state’s
education budget because
it would force cuts at public
schools was ousted from his
seat on the Ways and Means
education
subcommittee
during a vote on the spend-
ing plan.
State Rep. Diego Hernan-
dez’s “no” vote would have
meant defeat for the $8.2 bil-
lion biennial budget for K-12
education. When Hernandez
made it clear early Thursday
that he would vote against the
education budget, other mem-
bers of the subcommittee
summoned Ways and Means
Co-Chairwoman
Nancy
Nathanson to the room.
Nathanson used her
authority to replace any
House member on a Ways
and Means subcommittee and
temporarily removed Her-
nandez from the subcommit-
tee. She then cast a “yes” vote
on the budget, allowing the
budget to progress to the full
Joint Committee on Ways and
Means.
Hernandez’s decision was
at odds with other Democrats
on the subcommittee.
“We have reached a criti-
cal point in this session, and
I am sorry but … I cannot
vote for a budget that contin-
ues to cut our school funding
and continues to maintain our
mediocrity,” said Hernandez,
who also is a member of the
Reynolds School Board.
He called on legislators
to wait on the budget and to
focus on passing corporate
revenue reform before the
end of session in July. A pro-
posed commercial activity
tax, for instance, could bring
in additional revenue to put
toward schools.
While the amount of the
K-12 budget for 2017-19 is
greater than what was allo-
cated in the previous two
years, the Oregon School
Boards Association has said
the amount will require lay-
offs, shorter school years
and elimination of programs.
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