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Taiwan, the panelists said.
“The opposition to port develop-
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Exporting ments in this country talk of creating
large amounts of Wyoming coal to East greater coal burn in Asia if more
Asia would have a negligible effect U.S. coal is available,” said Michael
on global greenhouse gas emissions Mewing, a consultant with coal mine
because the amount of coal burned in owner and export terminal developer
those countries isn’t a result of coal’s Lighthouse Resources, Inc. “The reality
availability so much as their rapid of life is that demand will continue to
economic growth and heavy reliance grow, and it will be met whether the
on the fossil fuel to produce electricity, U.S. participates or not.”
Another panelist agreed, pointing
developers of coal export facilities said
to a recent U.S. Surface Transportation
Thursday.
Environmentalists
warn
that Board draft environmental study for a
exporting U.S. coal overseas has the Montana rail line for coal shipments.
same effect on climate change as The study found that exporting
burning it here. But participants in a Wyoming coal overseas mostly
coal exports discussion panel at the would offset — and only marginally
Wyoming Infrastructure Authority increase — existing international coal
spring energy conference said the shipments, Millennium Bulk Terminals
global coal market isn’t driven by &KLHI([HFXWLYH2I¿FHU%LOO&KDSPDQ
said.
supply but demand.
Greenhouse gas emissions could in
Some countries, particularly China,
are committed for the foreseeable future fact decrease because Wyoming coal
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ciently than coals from other countries,
who steps up to provide it, they said.
The Powder River Basin of north- Chapman said.
“The effect globally is slightly
east Wyoming and southeast Montana
is the top coal-producing region in the positive, or unable to observe by any
U.S., supplying around 40 percent of movement of the needle whatsoever,”
he said.
the nation’s coal.
Indonesia over the past 15 years or
Production is down over the past
few years amid low prices for natural so has become a major coal exporter,
supplying 35 percent of the Asian
gas.
Should large docking facilities market, Mewing said.
The U.S., which after China remains
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coal markets in Japan, South Korea and could yet claim some of Indonesia’s
Associated Press
women to obtain year
of birth control at a time
share of the market by exporting
Powder River Basin coal, he said.
“You can more than compete with
them. You are a superior grade of coal,”
Mewing said.
Lighthouse Resources, formerly
known as Ambre Energy, owns the
Decker Mine in Montana and the Black
Butte Mine in southwestern Wyoming
and is pursuing two major coal export
terminals on the Columbia River in
Oregon and Washington.
One is Millennium Bulk Terminals’
facility in Longview, Washington, a
former aluminum smelter eyed for
conversion to a coal export facility.
Lighthouse owns 62 percent of
Millennium and Arch Coal the other 38
percent.
Another coal export terminal
proposal undergoing government
review is SSA Marine’s proposed
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Point, Washington, which is about 10
miles south of the Canadian border.
Local tribes oppose that project as well,
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practices.
“We believe we have a good design
that if given a fair environmental review,
will prove to meet the state’s environ-
mental permitting requirements,” said
Joe Ritzman, vice president of business
development at SSA Marine.
Many people in Washington state
support coal exports, Chapman said.
“They understand we are not going
to change what China does,” he said.
obvious once you point them
out. People had been accus-
SALEM — Oregon has tomed to going along with 30
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insurance law that will allow hadn’t really questioned it.”
She said the proposal
women to obtain a year’s
worth of birth control at a has drawn interest from
time, expanding coverage lawmakers in California,
that previously needed to be New York and Washington
renewed every 30 or 90 days. state. A similar measure
Gov. Kate Brown signed is pending in Washington,
the legislation Thursday, D.C., reproductive rights
saying it “has a simple expert Elizabeth Nash said.
Insurance
companies
premise that I whole-heart-
edly believe in: increase typically cover a 30- or
access and decrease barriers.” 90-day supply of contracep-
Supporters
say
the tion, Nash said. But a year’s
measure will reduce unin- supply “would reduce the
tended pregnancies and make potential for skipping pills or
things easier for women, not having her patch or ring
especially in rural areas, when she needs it,” the Gutt-
since they won’t need to visit macher Institute researcher
doctors or pick up prescrip- said.
The plan would require
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and advances a push on the month supply to make sure
there are no adverse reac-
issue this year in the state.
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that would allow pharma- year. It goes into effect Jan. 1.
Oregon’s moves to expand
cists to write birth control
prescriptions for women who access to contraception stand
pass a self-administered risk- in contrast to efforts else-
screening assessment. That where.
Some more conserva-
proposal also has received
tive states have focused
wide support.
The Catholic church on allowing pharmacists
opposes
contraceptive to opt out of dispensing
expansion, saying Oregon’s contraception if they have
measures could have “moral religious objections. And
implications and social a recently passed Missouri
law would have required
consequences.”
Critics of the new law, insurers to issue policies that
meanwhile, say it could don’t cover birth control if
increase health care costs for individuals or employers said
employers and insurers. It contraceptives violate their
could be wasteful to dispense moral or religious beliefs.
a year’s worth of pills, for A federal judge, however,
example, since a woman struck that down last year as
could decide to stop taking unconstitutional.
Nolan said Oregon has
them or choose to switch
traditionally been a champion
prescriptions, they say.
“To me it’s just a for women’s rights, citing a
checkbook issue, plain and 1969 move to decriminalize
simple,” Rep. Julie Parrish, a abortion that came several
West Linn Republican, who years before Roe v. Wade.
“We have a long history,”
opposed the measure.
Mary Nolan, interim she said, “of really strong
executive director of Planned advocates for health care for
Parenthood Advocates of women — and particularly
Oregon, however, said the around reproductive health
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BRIEFLY
Bill to ban
criminal record
question on job
forms advances
SALEM (AP) — The
Oregon Senate has approved
a bill making it illegal for
employers to ask about
criminal records on job
applications.
The bill passed Thursday
in a 21-8 vote.
The so-called “ban
the box” measure would
prohibit questions on
job applications, but an
employer could still ask
about convictions during a
job interview.
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excluded at an early stage.
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convictions would give
people a chance to explain
their conviction, their more
Portland home after cutting
himself with a steak knife.
A short time later, a
woman reported that a man
with a knife and blood on
his hands had broken into
her house. She hid in the
basement with her two
young children.
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handgun after Harrison left
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measure will put businesses
at risk of lawsuits.
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to the House, which must
agree to changes made in
the Senate.
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grand jury has indicted a
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unlawful use of a weapon
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upset over a pending
divorce left a southeast
fray Thursday afternoon to
help stop a defendant who
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assault a deputy prosecutor.
Superior Court
Administrator Jeff Amram
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but later saw a bite mark on
Stahnke’s cheek and arm.
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Colin Hayes says a jury
had just convicted the
49-year-old defendant on
child molestation charges.
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says both the judge and the
deputy suffered injuries that
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