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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Hanford whistleblower settles
with employer for $4.1 million
not tolerated, and will
not tolerate, retaliation or
harassment in any form
against anyone who raises
a safety issue in good
faith,” AECOM said. “The
company is pleased to put
this matter behind us and
continue with the important
cleanup work at the Hanford
site.”
The settlement followed
¿ve years of legal ¿ghts. A
trial had been scheduled in
2016.
Hanford, located near
Richland, for decades made
plutonium
for
nuclear
weapons and now is engaged
in the cleanup of the nation’s
largest collection of radioac-
tive waste.
The $12.2 billion Waste
Treatment Plant, whose
construction is stalled, is
intended to convert the most
dangerous wastes into glass
for eventual burial.
“We are very pleased
that Walter can get on with
his life after ¿ve years of
litigation, and that he has
been vindicated,” said his
attorney, Jack Sheridan of
Associated Press
SPOKANE,
Wash.
(AP) — A whistleblower
on the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation has reached a
$4.1 million settlement with
his former employer on the
former nuclear weapons
production site in Wash-
ington state, his lawyer said
Wednesday.
Walter Tamosaitis was a
former manager at Hanford’s
Waste Treatment Plant,
where he worked for subcon-
tractor 8RS, Inc., which is
now known as AECOM.
He was removed from his
position in 2010 after raising
safety concerns about the
construction of the giant
plant. He was eventually
¿red in 2013.
AECOM, which acquired
8RS last October, said it
reached the settlement to
avoid the cost of litigation.
“The company strongly
disagrees that it retaliated
against him in any manner,”
AECOM said in a press
release.
“The
company
has
BRIEFLY
Brown signs 846
bills, vetoes none
SALEM (AP) — Gov.
Kate Brown won’t be
issuing any vetoes in her
¿rst year in of¿ce.
The Democratic
governor signed all 846
bills sent to her by the
Legislature, the last 43
of them on Wednesday,
including one creating
a special license plate
honoring the Portland Trail
Blazers. Proceeds from the
plates will go to the Trail
Blazers Foundation.
With the House, Senate
and governor’s of¿ce all
controlled by Democrats,
Oregon governors have
issued few vetoes during
the past decade.
“We are very pleased Walter
can get on with his life after five
years of litigation, and that he
has been vindicated.”
— Jack Sheridan,
Attorney for Walter Tamosaitis
Seattle. “This settlement
sends a message to whis-
tleblowers everywhere that
integrity and truth are worth
¿ghting for, and that you can
win if you don’t give up.”
In November, the 9th 8.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals
reinstated a lawsuit ¿led by
Tamosaitis against 8RS and
said he was entitled to a jury
trial.
The appeals court ruled
that a lower court wrongly
dismissed the case against
8RS, the primary subcon-
tractor on the plant.
Tamosaitis contends that
8RS removed him as the
research and technology
manager of the un¿nished
plant after he said more
time was needed to resolve
complex technical issues.
Construction on the plant
has since stopped because of
technical and safety issues.
8RS disagreed, saying
Tamosaitis had completed
his work and sent inappro-
priate emails discussing the
issue.
8.S. District Court Judge
Lonny Suko dismissed the
case in 2012 after ruling that
Tamosaitis had not followed
legal requirements to wait
one year after ¿ling an
administrative claim with the
Department of Labor before
proceeding to a federal court
case.
Coast drowning
viFtiP identi¿ed
as missing man
PACIFIC CITY
(AP) — A drowning victim
discovered on the Oregon
Coast has been identi¿ed as
a missing man.
A hiker spotted the body
in the area of McPhillips
Beach north of Cape
Kiwanda in Tillamook
County on Monday
morning.
KPTV reports the
medical e[aminer identi¿ed
the man as 22-year-old
Sean Yamaguchi.
Yamaguchi had been
reported missing out of
Benton County on July
29. His death was ruled a
drowning. Investigators say
Yamaguchi was assumed to
be with his girlfriend. She
also was reported missing
and has not been located.
Growing number of Oregon cities,
counties are banning marijuana
91. In counties where at
least 60 percent of voters
opposed
the
measure,
local governments can ban
the marijuana businesses
outright; elsewhere, a ban
is temporary until voters
weigh in.
Even in jurisdictions that
opt out, adults can still grow
and use marijuana subject to
the same limits that apply
in the rest of the state. But
if they want to buy the drug
from a retail store, they’ll
have to travel to somewhere
that allows them.
The strongest opposi-
tion so far has come from
far-eastern Oregon, where
Malheur County and three
of its ¿ve incorporated cities
have adopted bans.
“I think some of our
problem here really is our
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press
SALEM — At least a
dozen Oregon cities and
counties have taken steps
to ban marijuana businesses
from their boundaries as the
state prepares to begin retail
sales in October.
Four counties and eight
cities have informed the
Oregon Liquor Control
Commission that they plan
to ban marijuana producers,
processors,
wholesalers
and retailers. In some juris-
dictions, the ban must go
before voters.
Oregon lawmakers gave
local governments the
ability to keep out mari-
juana businesses, which
were authorized by voters
under last year’s Measure
proximity to Idaho, where
it’s totally illegal,” said
Larry Wilson, a Malheur
County commissioner. “We
even had testimony from
police agencies on the other
side of the river asking us to
please opt out, or restrict it
as much as we can, because
that’s a problem with people
going back and forth across
the river.”
Elsewhere,
Douglas
County opted out of
allowing marijuana busi-
nesses, but its largest city,
Roseburg, voted to allow
existing medical marijuana
dispensaries to sell pot to
recreational users.
The cities that have
noti¿ed the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission that
they’re opting out are:
Ontario,
Vale,
Nyssa,
Brownsville, Sandy, Island
City, Sutherlin and Junction
City. The counties are
Douglas, 8matilla, Harney
and Malheur.
Other city councils or
county commissions may
have voted to ban pot busi-
nesses but haven’t formally
noti¿ed the commission.
State law gives local
governments until Dec. 27
to adopt a ban, said Mark
Pettinger, a spokesman for
the commission.
Marijuana
possession
and use became legal on
July 1, but the state won’t
be ready to begin regulated
sales until next year.
As a temporary stop-gap,
medical dispensaries are
allowed to begin selling
the drug in some forms on
Oct. 1.
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TODAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and
very warm
An afternoon
t-storm; cooler
Nice with plenty of
sunshine
97° 68°
82° 57°
MONDAY
Pleasant with
plenty of sunshine
Sunny and
beautiful
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
83° 54°
86° 56°
87° 59°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
99° 69°
84° 56°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
101°
88°
105° (1971)
66°
58°
42° (1907)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Trace
Trace
0.15"
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HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
99°
89°
106° (1971)
62°
58°
45° (1966)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
Trace
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4.29"
6.00"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Aug 14
Aug 22
89° 54°
90° 56°
Seattle
85/61
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
84° 52°
Full
5:52 a.m.
8:07 p.m.
5:05 a.m.
7:25 p.m.
Last
Aug 29
Sep 5
Spokane
Wenatchee
97/67
100/74
Tacoma
Moses
87/60
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 101/66
98/62
72/61
86/58
102/66
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
84/61
100/72 Lewiston
101/68
Astoria
103/69
72/59
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
88/63
Pendleton 95/57
The Dalles 99/69
97/68
97/70
La Grande
Salem
97/55
88/61
Albany
Corvallis 85/59
85/58
John Day
96/63
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
102/64
85/59
90/54
Caldwell
Burns
102/66
95/49
Medford
91/60
Klamath Falls
85/48
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and hot today, except some clouds near the
Cascades.
Western Washington: Clouds and sun to-
day. Cloudy tonight with a shower in spots.
Showery tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight; a shower in spots in
the north.
Cascades: Periods of clouds and sun today.
Rather cloudy tonight with a shower in
places.
Northern California: Partly sunny today;
pleasant in central parts.
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TACOMA, Wash.
(AP) — A Portland-based
nonpro¿t group called
Columbia Riverkeeper
has ¿led a federal lawsuit
against a Washington state
heavy equipment company
claiming it’s polluting the
river with industrial waste.
The group claims
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its state-issued Industrial
Storm water General
Permit and the federal
Clean Water Act.
The lawsuit ¿led in 8.S.
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says Electro’s facility
discharges pollutants via
storm water that ends up
in the Columbia River.
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company has also violated
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by failing to collect,
analyze and discharge
samples.
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used in mining and
forestry as well as offshore
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left with the company
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National Summary: Drenching storms will focus on Florida today, while most areas from
the southern Plains to New England are dry. Storms will erupt over part of the North
Central states. Heat will build over the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 29° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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Chicago
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Indianapolis
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