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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
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waste might be removed from
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ment goals is a state of Idaho
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decades have expressed con-
cern about potential contami-
nation.
Clough said the aging tanks
containing the liquid nucle-
ar waste don’t meet current
regulatory standards, such as
a secondary containment sys-
tem. But Clough said there’s no
immediate concern about the
tanks leaking.
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-
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testing phase. In December,
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Low -32° in Watertown, N.Y.
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Boise
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