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Gov. Brown wants annual school toxics reports
announced Tuesday by
Gov. Kate Brown, who said
she directed the Oregon
Department of Education to
draft requirements for testing
and monitoring the health
safety of campus buildings
that otherwise don’t exist for
schools at the state or federal
level.
Brown’s directive comes
after last month’s disclosure
of high lead levels found
By KRISTENA HANSEN
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Oregon’s
197 school districts could
spend summer break crafting
procedures for testing lead,
radon and other chemicals at
their campuses ahead of Oct.
1, when the plans would be
handed over to the state.
These “Healthy and
Safe Facilities Plans” were
in drinking water at two
Portland schools, igniting
community outcry at a time
when the Flint, Michigan,
water scandal has brought
national attention to the issue.
The Oregon Department
of Education will discuss
the draft rules during its next
meeting Thursday, and is
accepting the public’s input
through Aug. 17.
“Any threat to the health
and safety of a child in
any school or classroom is
unacceptable,” Brown said
in a statement, adding that as
state-level agencies respond
to the crisis, “local school
districts and public charter
schools also have the obliga-
tion to ensure transparency
and accountability to parents
and communities.”
Under the preliminary
rules, school districts would
BRIEFLY
West Coast states meet to share
response efforts to oil spills
One killed, two
critically hurt in
iery crash
HAINES (AP) — State
police say one person died
and two were critically hurt
when two cars collided in
Eastern Oregon.
A called alerted a
Baker County dispatcher
Monday night that a Buick
sedan was being driven
erratically. Minutes later,
the vehicle was involved in
the crash near Haines.
Police say the Buick
was traveling eastbound
on Highway 30 when it
crossed the centerline,
struck a Toyota sedan and
caught ire.
First responders put out
the blaze along with people
who stopped to help using
ire extinguishers and a
bucket that was used to
collect water from a ditch
next to the road.
The Buick driver —
39-year-old Christina Long
of Haines — died at the
scene. The occupants of
the second vehicle — a
40-year-old woman and a
17-year-old passenger —
were taken to a Baker City
hospital and then lown to
a regional trauma center.
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Washington
and Oregon environmental
regulators said Tuesday that
regional coordination and
planning exercises such as
drills aided in their response
to the iery train derailment
along the Columbia River
earlier this month.
The Northwest oficials
briefed their counterparts
from other states on the June
3 train accident in Mosier,
Oregon, at the annual
meeting of the Paciic
States/British Columbia Oil
Spill Task Force in Seattle.
The task force —
consisting of members from
British Columbia, Alaska,
Washington,
Oregon,
California and Hawaii —
collects and shares data on
oil spills, works together on
oil spill prevention projects
and promotes regulatory
safeguards.
They were in Seattle to
share knowledge and update
each other on their spill
response programs and other
projects.
Dale Jensen, Washing-
ton’s Ecology spills program
manager, says the Oregon
derailment is a reminder of
how vulnerable the region
is to oil spills and under-
scores the need for states
and federal agencies to
continue to work together to
improve spill prevention and
response.
In British Columbia,
AP Photo/Jae Hong, File
David Ledig, a national monument manager from the Bureau of Land Management,
walks past rocks covered in oil at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif.
regulators said they have
effectively used drones to
assess the extent of a tanker
truck crash that spilled diesel
fuel near Mount Robson
National Park. Wes Shoe-
maker, Deputy Minister of
British Columbia Ministry
of Environment, said drones
can be an effective tool to
assess downstream effects
of a spill.
Bruce
Gilles,
who
manages
the
Oregon
Department of Environ-
mental Quality’s cleanup
and emergency response
program, told the meeting
that “we couldn’t have been
luckier” during the Oregon
derailment.
Strong winds typically
blow through the Columbia
River Gorge but not that day
of oil. In 2011, no Bakken
crude oil was shipped by rail
compared with about 2.55
billion gallons in 2015.
Washington lawmakers
last year passed legislation
requiring railroads to come
up with oil spill contingency
plans; it also require facilities
that receive oil to provide
the state with advance notice
of oil shipments. New rules
are expected later this year.
California also has a
similar oil spill contingency
planning requirement for
railroads.
“What we get out of this
is new knowledge,” Jensen
said. “We’re always looking
ahead. We’re always antici-
pating what the potential is
and working very, very hard
to be as prepared as we can.”
the trains derailed, with four
cars catching ire. He also
said that there are sections
of the railroad that runs
adjacent to the river, but the
train crashed in an area that
was farther away from the
river.
Just several months
earlier, more than a dozen
agencies participated in a
national oil-spill response
drill that was based on a
scenario where a landslide
had caused a 100-unit oil
train to spill about 450,000
gallons of oil into the
Columbia River between
Washington and Oregon.
Jensen highlighted the
dramatic changes in the
way oil is shipped through
Washington state, noting
an uptick in rail transport
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THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Sunny
Sunny, breezy and
pleasant
84° 56°
78° 52°
SATURDAY
Cooler; a shower in
the morning
SUNDAY
Sunny, pleasant
and warmer
Mostly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 49°
80° 49°
89° 59°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
89° 60°
82° 55°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
77°
80°
102° (1973)
57°
53°
34° (1893)
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"
0.91"
0.93"
6.50"
4.99"
7.48"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
80°
81°
100° (1970)
59°
54°
41° (2014)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.41"
0.46"
4.64"
3.14"
5.60"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
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June 27
July 4
5:06 a.m.
8:48 p.m.
10:23 p.m.
7:30 a.m.
First
Full
July 11
84° 54°
93° 56°
Seattle
71/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
76° 50°
July 19
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
80/57
82/61
Tacoma
Moses
71/54
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 84/60
78/50
63/55
70/53
86/57
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
71/56
84/59 Lewiston
89/61
Astoria
86/57
66/54
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
76/57
Pendleton 80/48
The Dalles 89/60
84/56
84/60
La Grande
Salem
81/48
78/56
Albany
Corvallis 78/53
79/53
John Day
87/51
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
92/58
80/53
78/46
Caldwell
Burns
91/57
84/43
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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WINDS
Medford
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Klamath Falls
81/43
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun
today, but low clouds followed by sunshine
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today;
very warm in the south and upper Treasure
Valley. Clear tonight.
Western Washington: Clouds and sun
today. Mostly cloudy tonight with showers.
Spotty showers tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine across the
south, near the Idaho border and in the
mountains today; sun in the north.
Cascades: Times of clouds and sun today;
mostly sunny and pleasant in the south.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; sunny
elsewhere. Clear tonight.
Today
Thursday
WSW 6-12
WNW 6-12
WSW 10-20
WSW 10-20
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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PORTLAND (AP)
— The Oregon Court of
Appeals has reversed a
DUI conviction because
the driver was pulled over
by a Washington State
Patrol trooper after he
crossed into Oregon.
The Oregonian/Oregon
Live reports that the
court overturned the 2011
conviction of 40-year-old
James Edward Keller of
Beaverton. It found last
week that the Washington
trooper had no authority
under Oregon law to stop
Keller.
The ruling could send a
message that unruly drivers
and low-level criminals in
neighboring states could
avoid punishment by
crossing into Oregon.
The Appeals Court says
there is an exception for
out-of-state police to stop
people suspected of having
committed a felony if the
police are in “hot pursuit”
of the suspects and chase
them into Oregon.
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has been identiied as
50-year-old Chester
Newborn, and a woman
injured by the gunire
is 52-year-old Wendy
Mustacci.
Homicide detectives
believe the Sunday night
shooting was in connection
with a drug transaction.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
PORTLAND (AP)
Portland police say a
man fatally shot in the
Old Town neighborhood
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will go by whatever testing
frequency is recommended
by a federal regulatory
agency.
“So if it’s an (Environ-
mental Protection Agency)
guideline, it’ll be whatever
the EPA regulations are,”
Wojcicki.
Information on potential
costs or funding sources for
those costs was not immedi-
ately available.
submit plans for testing
water, air quality and
hazardous waste sites —
paying attention to lead and
radon speciically — with
any results reported annually
to the state and disclosed to
the community online.
The draft rules don’t say
how often these tests should
occur, but Amy Wojcicki,
spokeswoman for the educa-
tion department, said schools
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
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National Summary: Storms will dot northern New England and South Florida today. There
is the potential for violent storms and flash flooding in part of the Midwest. The Southwest
will be hot, but less extreme than late.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 116° in Needles, Calif.
Low 32° in Boca Reservoir, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
72
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
96
New Orleans
90
New York City
85
Oklahoma City
97
Omaha
94
Philadelphia
87
Phoenix
113
Portland, ME
74
Providence
83
Raleigh
93
Rapid City
85
Reno
95
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
100
Salt Lake City
95
San Diego
76
San Francisco
71
Seattle
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Tucson
108
Washington, DC 88
Wichita
101
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