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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, July 21, 2016 Potato, sugar leaders laud GMO labeling bill PARK CITY, Utah — Leaders of the potato and sugar beet indus- tries say they consider a bill that passed Congress requiring labels on food containing genetically modiied organisms to be a good compromise. The House of Representatives approved the bill July 14 by a 306-117 vote and sent it to the White House. President Barrack Obama has indicated he intends to sign the legislation, which agricul- tural interests laud for creating a single national standard to prevent a patchwork of state regulations. The GMO labeling bill recently implemented in Vermont will Time runs out for timber ballot initiatives Young occupier pleads guilty in standoff case PORTLAND (AP) — The youngest occupier from this winter's takeover of an Oregon bird sanctuary has pleaded guilty. At the federal courthouse in Portland, 21-year-old Travis Cox admitted Wednesday that he conspired with others to impede federal workers from doing their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Prosecutors will recommend that Cox serve eight months of home detention with credit for time served. The defendant from Redmond, Oregon, was arrested in Utah in April. He's the ninth man to plead guilty to conspiracy among the 26 people indicted in the case. Most of the other defendants — including occupation leader Ammon Bundy — are scheduled to go to trial in September. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The state Department of Forestry keeps a 100-foot buffer along the Nehalem River below the Homesteader timber sale in the Buster Creek basin. environmental nonproit. However, Pedery said he’s pleased the Oregon Supreme Court has approved the ballot title for one of the initiative petitions, since such language is now likely to stand in future elections. Oregon Wild is a taking a long-term interest in enacting timber reforms, possibly with initiatives on the 2018 or 2020 ballots, said Pedery. Oregonians for Food & Shelter, an agribusiness group, is glad the “extreme and damaging measures” won’t be on the November ballot, but it’s likely the issues will be revived, said Scott Dahlman, its policy director. Similar ideas will also probably surface in the Oregon legislature again next year, Dahlman said. Lawmkers rejected such proposals during the 2015 legislative session in favor of a “more reasoned approach” once they learned about their negative consequences, he said. “We think the people of Oregon would do the same if they were educated on the issue,” Dahlman said. Sara Duncan, public affairs director for the Oregon Forest & Industries Council, said the timber industry has made great technological improve- ments to prevent off-site spray drift. Aside from a few high-pro- ile incidents, pesticide spraying in forestry has proven to be safe, she said. “We already have strin- gent rules and regulations,” Duncan said. DEQ says ground water contaminated after train derailment near Mosier PORTLAND (AP) — A monitoring well installed after last month's train derailment near Mosier, Oregon, has detected oil contamination in the ground water. The state Department of Environmental Quality tells Portland station KATU that drinking water is not affected in the Columbia River Gorge town because those wells are uphill To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Very warm with sunshine Sunny, breezy and not as warm 93° 62° 82° 55° Mostly sunny and pleasant SUNDAY REGIONAL CITIES Nice with brilliant sunshine Plenty of sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 84° 53° 90° 59° 94° 59° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 97° 67° 87° 57° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 86° 90° 110° (1931) 58° 60° 42° (1932) 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 0.80" 0.20" 7.32" 5.00" 7.82" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records HIGH LOW 88° 90° 108° (1931) 53° 59° 46° (1933) 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" 0.30" 0.14" 4.94" 3.25" 5.87" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New July 26 Aug 2 First Aug 10 94° 60° 98° 61° Seattle 79/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 88° 55° 5:27 a.m. 8:36 p.m. 9:38 p.m. 7:27 a.m. Full Aug 18 Today MONDAY Spokane Wenatchee 90/61 90/65 Tacoma Moses 79/57 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 93/65 90/56 72/58 80/56 95/63 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 79/58 94/64 Lewiston 97/67 Astoria 97/66 69/59 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 79/61 Pendleton 89/53 The Dalles 97/67 93/62 92/64 La Grande Salem 91/56 79/59 Albany Corvallis 79/56 79/56 John Day 93/54 Ontario Eugene Bend 99/65 79/55 83/47 Caldwell Burns 100/64 91/47 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 Hi 69 92 83 64 91 89 79 91 97 93 83 91 88 87 64 66 99 96 93 79 88 79 90 87 79 94 95 Lo 59 50 47 53 47 53 55 57 67 54 44 56 51 58 54 56 65 66 62 61 48 59 61 49 60 64 63 W c s s pc s s pc s pc s s s s pc c c s pc s pc s pc pc s pc s pc Hi 69 78 77 68 82 76 79 80 87 82 81 79 75 87 65 68 91 86 82 75 80 78 77 75 73 82 86 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 74 82 69 63 55 55 63 62 75 58 71 W r sh s pc t r t s pc sh r Lo 56 39 42 53 40 46 51 49 57 47 43 45 42 56 51 53 58 56 55 58 41 55 54 43 56 58 54 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. 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The agency said Wednesday that four monitoring wells were installed after the wreck, and one revealed signiicant oil contamination. DEQ plans to install a treatment system that injects air into the underground water. The oxygen will stimulate the existing microbes that live in the water to break down the oil. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — ingredients and drive up consumer food prices over a ridiculous Vermont bill.” National Organic Coalition oficials said in a press release the bill avoids “fully transparent, on-package labels” and includes no enforcement provisions or penalties. The vast majority of U.S. sugar beets are genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate herbicide. Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. is in the early stages of marketing the only commercially available GMO spud, called Innate. “This bill blocks Vermont’s law and gives USDA two additional years to set labeling rules under this weak and meaningless framework,” the coalition’s press release reads. BRIEFLY By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau Three ballot initiatives that would have restricted clear-cutting and aerial spraying in Oregon have failed to qualify for the November general election. One of the petitions, which would have imposed new limits on aerial pesticide applications, was able to obtain the Oregon Supreme Court’s approval for its ballot title language. However, that didn’t leave enough time for supporters to collect about 88,000 valid signatures by the July 8 dead- line. The state’s highest court has yet to rule on the ballot title for another petition that would restrict aerial spraying and logging in landslide-prone areas. A third petition to prohibit clear-cut timber harvests was withdrawn by supporters due to legal complications involving forestland property value laws. Steve Pedery, a chief peti- tioner for all three proposals, said the application process was started late and further hindered by legal challenges from the timber industry. “Once we ended up in the court process, the clock was probably going to run out on us,” said Pedery, who is also conservation director for the Oregon Wild had already started pulling products from Vermont shelves. Raybould supports the bill’s deinition of a GMO crop, noting it regulates the introduction of traits from one organism into another but omits promising new “gene editing” tech- niques that don’t introduce foreign DNA. Furthermore, the bill doesn’t require labeling of ingredients derived from GMO crops in which all traces of GMO traits are removed in processing, such as beet sugar. “Food companies now can breathe a bit easier,” said Luther Markwart, executive vice president of American Sugarbeet Growers Association. “They’re not going to have to do different sourcing of GMO labeling standard, introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., but that bill failed to gain traction in Congress. NPC President Jim Tiede, of American Falls, Idaho, lobbied for the current bill with leaders from the major U.S. commodities, including corn and soybeans, in a July 7 meeting with House Agricul- ture Committee Chairman Michael Conway, R-Texas. Tiede said Conway “apologized profusely” that the voluntary labeling bill failed, but agricultural interests agree the new bill is still “a good compromise.” Ashton, Idaho, potato farmer Britt Raybould, who chairs NPC’s Legislative and Government Affairs Committee, said suppliers be suspended. New rules for the federal standard will go into effect within two years. The bill allows companies to label GMO content using an icon that will be developed by USDA, on-package language or a bar code linking to online messaging when scanned by a smartphone — a major point of contention among critics, who argue the requirement is too weak. “It gives the food companies options,” said John Keeling, exec- utive vice president and CEO of the National Potato Council. “They have to convey information, but it gives them options in how they do that.” NPC had initially made it a top priority to lobby for a voluntary By JOHN O’CONNELL Capital Press 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. 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