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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.
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sunshine
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Tillamook
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Salem
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Newport
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First
May 4
Coos Bay
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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
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State fi shery managers in
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spring fi shery after openings
over the previous two week-
ends resulted in low catch
rates because of poor water
conditions.
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for bank and boat angling
on Saturday and Sunday on
the Columbia River main
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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
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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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