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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Friday, January 9, 2015 feds for not shipping nuclear waste IDAHO FALLS, Idaho federal government $3,600 a day for missing a deadline to remove 900,000 gallons of liq- uid nuclear waste from tanks at a southeast Idaho nuclear facil- The state Department of Environmental Quality said it rejected a request for another extension from the U.S. De- partment of Energy to go past the Dec. 31 deadline to remove the radioactive waste at the Ida- ho National Laboratory. Post Register that three 50-year-old tanks are no longer supposed to be used for storage under fed- eral laws governing hazardous waste. “Although DOE has had many years to complete this milestone, DOE has failed to initiate and complete treat- ment of the liquid wastes in the tanks or construct new tanks,” said DEQ’s Hazardous Waste Compliance Manager Natalie Clough in a letter Tuesday to Richard Provencher, manager of DOE’s Idaho Operations Of- AP Photo/Chris Carlson This 2009 file photo shows logging equipment cutting trees near Reserve, N.M. An organization that cer- tifies lumber and paper products as environmentally sustainable has upgraded its standards, but critics say the Sustainable Forestry Initiative standards and enforcement remain weak. Timber group updates green forestry standards sial practices,” Jim Ace of Forest Eth- ics said in an email. The group has been a longtime By JEFF BARNARD Associated Press GRANTS PASS — An organiza- a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission challenging the credi- bility of the organization. That com- plaint is pending. Another group, Center for Sustainable Economy, has products as environmentally sustain- able has upgraded its standards, but critics say the Sustainable Forestry Initiative standards and enforcement remain weak. SFI President and CEO Kathy Abusow says the upgrade released Wednesday came out of a regular logging practices in Oregon’s Coast Range by timberland owner Plum Creek Timberland, LP. FSC was created by environmen- tal groups in 1993 after the Rio Earth Summit to use market forces to lim- it global deforestation. It is widely considered the more rigorous of the - lion acres around the world, and 175 million acres in the U.S. and Canada. standards on clearing large areas of forest, damaging wetlands, and using pesticides. The revision comes as the envi- ronmental group ForestEthics issued audits in Canadian forests with audits by the Forest Stewardship Council, products company in North America organization. The report found SFI audits were less rigorous than FSC audits and called for fewer correc- tions to forest practices. “To date, the SFI Forest Manage- ment standard has not been a suf- Corp. in 2005. SFI was created by the timber in- dustry in 1994 to certify sustainable forests in the U.S. and Canada, but than 240 million acres of forest in the U.S. and Canada. Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek Timber Co. are two of the and endorsed highly environmentally and socially damaging and controver- Both organizations also certify ends up in the products carrying their labels that consumers buy. Since 2007, the number of prod- ucts carrying the SFI label has gone from 50 to 6,000, and range from piz- za boxes to lumber, Abusow said. Ben Cashore, professor of envi- ronmental governance and political science at Yale University, has been studying the two organizations for 15 years, and is coming out with a report shortly that compares them. In general, FSC has more mandatory requirements to put standards on the ground, such as larger buffers to pro- tect streams, he said. SFI feels man- datory requirements can be a strait- jacket that does not produce results, Cashore said, and gives timberland - tainability goals. The two organizations are in in- tense competition to win adherents, he added. One major problem for timber companies is that it costs money to implement the standards, which opens the door to cheaper wood prod- ucts from Asia, where forest practices are less restrictive, Cashore said. is a priority of the (DEQ), and further delays are of critical concern.” - crease to $6,000 a day if the waste isn’t gone by July 1. Department of Energy spokeswoman Danielle Miller said the agency is reviewing WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a 3 year-old girl has died and her 2-year-old brother is hospitalized after a Walla space heater caught blankets small children were sleeping. Walla Walla County Coroner Richard Greenwood said Thursday the girl died of asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation from Wednesday’s Union- Bulletin her younger brother Corrections Didn’t receive your paper? — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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The Department of Energy built a facility called the Inte- grated Waste Treatment Unit to turn the liquid waste into a powder. But the facility has continued to run into prob- lems trying to get beyond the testing phase. In December, • Stephanie Burkenbine for same-day redelivery www.eastoregonian.com During the Cold War, the site also became home to mil- lions of tons of nuclear waste generated at sites in other states. The facility sits atop the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer, One girl dead, boy injured The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 the notice of violation it re- ceived. She declined to make additional comments. 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