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Proposal approved by House but fails to
pass muster in Senate committee
ban against local
regulations on genet-
ically
engineered
crops, which the
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
approved by the U.S. Food and Legislature approved
EO Media Group
Drug Administration last year.
in 2013 as part of a
Critics of HB 4122 argued broader package of
SALEM — A bill that that labeling would unneces- bills passed during a
would require genetically sarily alarm consumers about special session.
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The Oregon Farm
Oregon has died in committee claimed the bill was premature Bureau vigorously
but the proposal will likely be because the FDA is still deter- opposed the reversing
mining whether federal labeling this pre-emption statute, arguing
resurrected next year.
House Bill 4122 was guidelines for such salmon are it would create a patchwork of
approved 32-27 earlier this appropriate.
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Sen.
Laurie
Monnes across the state. Proponents
month by the House and
was referred to the Senate Anderson, the committee’s said local control was necessary
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which did not act on the bill hearing that she was generally on biotech crops at the state and
by the legislature’s Feb. 23 supportive of HB 4122 but it federal levels.
was “dropped in our lap” only
deadline.
However,
the
initial
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consumers to easily discern session.
approval of Oregon’s salmon
Originally,
HB
4122 industry but continued to
between local wild-caught
salmon and a biotech variety would have lifted Oregon’s face opposition from biotech
BRIEFLY
Baker City man pleads guilty
to illegally taking wolf
supporters and food
manufacturers.
The Center for
Food Safety, which
supported
both
versions of HB
4122, will continue
to educate legisla-
tors about genetic
engineering in antic-
ipation of proposals
being revived in
2017, said Amy van Saun, legal
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nent may be rendered moot
by 2017, depending on federal
action, said Scott Dahlman,
policy director of Oregonians
for Food and Shelter, an
industry group that opposed
the bill.
However, Dahlman said he
wouldn’t be surprised if the
biotech pre-emption issue will
be raised during the longer
legislative session next year.
CANYON CITY (AP) — An Oregon hunter
who fatally shot a radio-collared wolf last fall
has pleaded guilty to taking a threatened or
endangered species.
Harney County District Attorney Tim Colahan
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$1,000 and ordered to pay the same amount in
restitution to the Oregon Department of Fish and
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state.
In a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a
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big game tag.
Witty was hunting coyotes in Grant County
when the shooting occurred. He reported the
incident to authorities.
Colahan prosecuted the case because the Grant
County district attorney knows Witty’s father.
State has spent more than $6.6M
on legal fees for Cover Oregon
SALEM (AP) — Oregon has paid more than
$6.6 million on legal fees in ongoing litigation
over the failed Cover Oregon health insurance
exchange portal.
The Statesman Journal reports that documents
released to the newspaper by the Oregon
Department of Justice show payments as high as
$960,900 made between May 2014 and December
2015 to attorneys representing the state.
The state and Oracle Inc., the primary tech
contractor on Cover Oregon, have been engaged
in a lengthy, multi-case legal battle over who is
responsible for the project’s failure since 2014.
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$2 million the state set aside for the lawsuits, DOJ
spokeswoman Kristina Edmunson said Tuesday
the agency does not expect to need to ask the
Legislature for additional money for the cases.
Bill ratifying wolf delisting heads for Senate vote
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
EO Media Group
SALEM — The fate of
an environmentalist lawsuit
over the removal of wolves
from Oregon’s list of endan-
gered species will soon
be decided by the Oregon
Senate.
Under House Bill 4040, the
legislature would ratify last
year’s decision by state wild-
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effectively neutralizing a legal
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environmental groups in the
Oregon Court of Appeals.
The Senate will soon vote
on HB 4040 having passed
a key legislative committee
on Feb. 23 and earlier having
passed the House.
Proponents of the bill,
including the Oregon Farm
Bureau and the Oregon Cattle-
men’s Association, argue that
livestock producers could be
excluded from any potential
legal settlement between the
environmental plaintiffs and
Oregon’s wildlife regulators,
thereby circumventing the
public process in setting wolf
management policy.
Environmentalists
and
animal rights advocates fear
the delisting will lead to
hunting and argue that HB
4040 will preclude judicial
Police say three residents
tortured 63-year-old relative
Courtesy of ODFW
OR-3, a three-year-old male wolf from the Imnaha pack, is shown in this image captured
from video taken by an ODFW employee in 2011 in Wallowa County.
happen in a courtroom,” he
said.
Edwards joined two Repub-
lican colleagues on the Senate
Committee on Environment
and Natural Resources in
voting in favor of the bill,
which passed the committee
3-2 and is now headed for a
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The two other Democrats
on the committee — Sen.
Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene,
and Sen. Michael Dembrow,
D-Portland — said they were
review of whether the delisting
decision was based on sound
science, which the Legislature
should not attempt to answer.
Sen.
Chris
Edwards,
D-Eugene, said it’s not unprec-
edented for Oregon lawmakers
to weigh in on thorny policy
issues instead of having them
hashed out during prolonged
litigation.
“As public policy makers,
we do intervene when we
believe it’s healthier to resolve
a situation rather than let it
uncomfortable with lawmakers
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process from the outset.
Prozanski said he would
have preferred a bill that would
require the Oregon Cattle-
men’s Association and Oregon
Farm Bureau to be included in
any settlement negotiations,
rather than render the lawsuit
moot.
“I’m concerned about us
being asked to intervene at this
stage in a judicial proceeding,”
he said.
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TODAY
KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — Three Klamath
Falls residents have been arrested for what
authorities describe as the torture of a female
relative.
The Herald and News reports that police
on Monday arrested a 56-year-old woman, her
24-year-old daughter and a 29-year-old man. All
three live with the 63-year-old victim and the
mother and daughter are the woman’s caregivers.
According to an Oregon State Police report,
the victim was hospitalized Feb. 11 in critical
condition. She said her 56-year-old caregiver
restrained her in a chair and beat her with a metal
spoon. She said she was also sexually abused
while restrained.
The victim also said the man broke her arm
while forcing her into the chair.
Police say they found blood splatter throughout
the house and believe the abuse has been going on
since May 2015.
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Coastal Oregon: Times of sun and clouds
today; pleasant across the north. Partly
cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; however, some clouds near the
Cascades. Patchy clouds tonight.
Western Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.
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High 86° in Fullerton, Calif.
Low -14° in Lake Yellowstone, Wyo.
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