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Newspaper Page TextA2 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 Paciﬁ Corp considers retiring some coal operations early Washington state judge blocks new Trump abortion rule Move could save money for customers By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press A U.S. judge in Washing- ton state Thursday blocked new Trump administra- tion rules that could cut off federal funding for health care providers who refer patients for an abortion. Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima granted the pre- liminary injunction in cases brought by the state and abortion rights groups, the Washington attorney gener- al’s ofﬁ ce said. The ruling came two days after a U.S. judge in Oregon, hearing a separate challenge by 20 states, said he intended to at least par- tially block the rules. They were due to take effect May 3. The lawsuits said the administration’s planned changes to the Title X family planning program, which was created in 1970 and serves 4 million patients, were a transpar- ent attack on Planned Par- enthood and would curb access to care such as con- traception and breast and cervical cancer screening By DAVID STEVES Oregon Public Broadcasting An energy company with hundreds of thousands of Oregon and Washington state customers is consid- ering the early retirement of some of its coal-burning operations. Paciﬁ Corp released a new economic analysis Thursday that says its cus- tomers could save about $248 million over 20 years if the company decides to retire four of its Wyoming coal units by 2022. That would mean closing one coal-ﬁ red plant and reduc- ing another plant’s capacity by half. Paciﬁ Corp spokesman Bob Gravely said any elec- tricity production lost from the retirement of coal oper- ations would be made up in other ways, possibly with energy from wind, solar and natural gas. Burning coal is one of the biggest contributors to cli- mate change. Coal accounts for 60 percent of the elec- tricity that Paciﬁ Corp pro- vides to its customers. The company already is moving away from coal, Gravely says. But the new study suggests this move could happen faster than previ- ously planned. Katie Campbell/KCTS9 A coal mine operation in Wyoming. “There is interest in see- ing that happen,” he said. Sophie Hayes, a senior staff attorney with Western Resource Advocates, said the new study is part of a larger economic trend for coal-ﬁ red power plants. “Coal plants across the West are becoming increasingly uneconomic as renewable energy costs and natural gas prices con- tinue to drop,” said Hayes, whose organization advo- cates for clean air, water and land. “This will also help protect the health and welfare of our families and future generations.” Retiring two of the four coal units at Paciﬁ Corp’s Jim Bridger Power Plant and both of the units that are part of the Naughton Power Plant would have a big impact on jobs and the demand for coal in Wyo- ming, where the plants operate and where their coal is mined. Gravely said it would also mean a less carbon-intensive mix of electricity for Paciﬁ Corp’s Oregon customers. “Even though the plants are located in Wyoming, it’s an interconnected sys- tem so it is part of the power mix that serves cus- tomers in Oregon,” he said. In 2016, the Oregon Legislature passed a bill that requires Paciﬁ Corp and Portland General Elec- tric to phase out the sup- ply of coal-ﬁ red power to the state by 2030 and dou- ble their renewable energy use by 2040. The new pol- icy will eventually strip the utilities of their Oregon customers for coal-ﬁ red power. The company serves 587,365 customers in Ore- gon and 131,453 custom- ers in Washington state through its Paciﬁ c Power business unit. SATURDAY SUNDAY 46 ALMANAC The Daily Astorian Intervals of clouds and sunshine Partly sunny Tillamook 44/52 Partly sunny Salem 43/58 Newport 44/53 First May 4 Coos Bay 44/57 Full May 11 Anglers are allowed a daily bag limit of two hatch- ery salmon — Chinook or steelhead — per day. Of these, only one may be a Chinook. Fish and w ildlife c om- missions for the two states plan to hold a joint meeting on May 8 to review salmon run and harvest information. They will also consider add- ing spring Chinook ﬁ shing opportunities . Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 2:11 a.m. 3:01 p.m. Low 3.7 ft. 1.2 ft. Baker 33/61 Ontario 40/71 Burns 33/64 Klamath Falls 36/68 Lakeview 35/67 Ashland 42/70 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 65 65 66 68 55 69 75 66 55 58 Today Lo 33 34 47 41 46 36 44 41 44 45 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 61 61 66 61 53 68 71 57 53 57 Sat. Lo 28 23 45 35 41 29 39 35 40 42 W pc pc s pc pc s s pc pc pc City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 62 67 67 72 67 56 61 67 66 71 Today Lo 40 43 45 44 43 47 39 39 44 42 W pc pc pc pc pc pc sh pc pc pc Hi 57 57 59 66 58 54 51 61 57 59 Sat. Lo 33 36 39 39 37 40 36 33 35 36 W c pc pc pc pc sh pc pc pc pc TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 73 53 63 74 63 63 91 49 86 63 68 95 73 74 90 71 81 64 75 71 68 74 71 62 72 Beaverton Aug. 20, 1961 — April 19, 2019 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Tonight's Sky: Last quarter moon (7:56 a.m. PDT). Today Lo 50 48 40 44 47 36 62 24 71 42 53 71 56 52 70 45 62 50 56 50 51 47 51 45 51 Deborah Diane Kettle La Grande 35/56 Roseburg 44/66 Brookings 48/65 May 18 John Day 34/60 Bend 34/61 Medford 44/71 UNDER THE SKY High 6.9 ft. 6.9 ft. Prineville 34/61 Lebanon 39/58 Eugene 41/61 SUN AND MOON New Pendleton 43/57 The Dalles 47/60 Portland 45/59 Sunset tonight ........................... 8:17 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:09 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 2:44 a.m. Moonset today .......................... 11:57 a.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 62 45 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 46/54 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.00" Month to date ................................... 5.27" Normal month to date ....................... 4.50" Year to date .................................... 20.32" Normal year to date ........................ 29.34" Time 7:45 a.m. 9:46 p.m. TUESDAY 61 44 Anglers will have another shot at spring Chinook on the lower Columbia River start- ing Saturday. State ﬁ shery managers in Oregon and Washington state have added two days to the spring ﬁ shery after openings over the previous two week- ends resulted in low catch rates because of poor water conditions. The ﬁ shery will reopen for bank and boat angling on Saturday and Sunday on the Columbia River main stem from the Warrior Rock deadline upstream to Beacon Rock. From Beacon Rock upstream to Bonneville Dam, only bank angling is allowed. Fishery managers expect water conditions to remain challenging this week- end, however, due to high turbidity. REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 65°/37° Normal high/low ........................... 58°/42° Record high ............................ 83° in 1941 Record low ............................. 29° in 1955 Apr 26 61 44 Partly sunny and breezy with a few showers Partly cloudy Last MONDAY 54 40 abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the woman. Reli- gious conservatives and abortion opponents have long complained that Title X has been used to indi- rectly subsidize abortion providers. Across Washington state in 2017, 14,000 patients received federally funded services at 85 of the clinics, many of them operated by Planned Parenthood. Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit said Trump’s policy violates the Affordable Care Act, which protects providers and patients from government interference in the health care relationship, and a fed- eral law that requires doc- tors to provide information about abortion and prenatal care to patients in an unbi- ased manner. It also violates the Administrative Procedures Act by contradicting Title X regulations without suf- ﬁ cient justiﬁ cation, and it violates doctors’ right to free speech and women’s right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade, he alleged. Spring Chinook ﬁ shery reopens on the lower Columbia River FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT for millions of low-income people. In addition to banning abortion referrals by tax- payer-funded clinics, the changes would prohibit clinics that receive fed- eral money from sharing ofﬁ ce space with abortion providers — a rule critics said would force many to ﬁ nd new locations, undergo expensive remodels or shut down. “All over the country, there are Title X provid- ers looking at their patient schedules and wondering what they were going to do,” said Clare Coleman, president of the National Family Planning & Repro- ductive Health Associa- tion, which sued. “Now we know that everyone can continue to do their care as they have been doing for the past 50 years.” The judge made his rul- ing from the bench and said he would issue a written opinion early next week, Coleman said. Abortion is a legal med- ical procedure, but federal laws prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to pay for W t r s t pc r s pc pc s pc s pc s pc pc pc r s r s t s pc t Hi 77 58 45 68 58 55 92 51 85 60 67 93 71 77 86 74 80 59 78 64 72 69 70 55 68 Sat. Lo 59 42 32 49 29 35 62 26 71 39 35 69 55 53 71 55 63 46 49 49 39 45 51 39 55 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s pc r c r r s s sh r t s pc c t pc s pc t s t s s c s Friends and family mourn the passing of She spent her ﬁ nal years pursuing her Debbe Kettle on April 19 in Hillsboro. passion for helping others through private counseling. Born Deborah Cintron in Wash- In her spare time, she enjoyed ington, D.C., she spent her for- decorating, cooking, movies and mative years in and around Kan- doting on her b asset h ounds. sas City, Missouri. She moved to Debbe is survived by her hus- Oregon in 1986, a place she would band, Pat; daughter, Caitlin; call home for the rest of her life. mother, Patricia; stepfather, Cliff; She spent many years in Asto- brother, Chris; and sister, Leslie. ria, where she participated in local She was loved. theater and ran a homeless shel- Please support your local men- ter for families. She married and tal health agencies. Too many peo- moved to Portland in 2000, where Deborah Kettle ple want and need help, yet are she worked her way through col- unable to get it. lege, earning a bachelor’s degree Tualatin Valley Funeral Alternatives is in religion and philosophy, a master’s degree entrusted with the arrangements. in divinity and a Ph.D. in psychology. MEMORIAL Wednesday, May 1 KEARNEY, Robert Paul “Bob” — Service at 11 a.m., Ocean View Cemetery Chapel, 575 S.W. 18th St. in Warrenton, immediately followed by ﬁ nal commitment. 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