WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
A passing shower
this afternoon
Intervals of clouds
and sun
47° 41°
51° 42°
MONDAY
A.M. rain; mostly
cloudy, breezy
Periods of sun, a
snow shower
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
46° 29°
38° 22°
29° 20°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 41°
48° 40°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
44°
42°
66° (1926)
37°
29°
-6° (1985)
PRECIPITATION
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Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.00"
0.05"
11.30"
7.81"
11.56"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
50°
43°
64° (1951)
0.00"
0.00"
0.06"
7.90"
5.39"
8.56"
SUN AND MOON
Dec 13
Bend
43/36
Last
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4:12 p.m.
9:38 a.m.
7:17 p.m.
New
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Dec 28
Caldwell
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Burns
36/23
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
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today; a little rain;
however, dry in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today; a passing shower across the north
and near the Cascades.
Western Washington: A thick cloud cover
today with occasional rain. A brief shower
or two tonight.
Eastern Washington: Snow and rain today,
except a bit of snow near the Idaho border
and in the mountains.
Cascades: A bit of snow across the north
today; a bit of snow and rain in central parts.
Flurries in the south.
Northern California: Sunshine today. Mainly
clear tonight.
Today
Saturday
SW 6-12
SSW 6-12
WSW 8-16
WSW 8-16
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Prosecutors in Nevada asking
for 3 ranching standoff trials
his sons Ammon and Ryan
Bundy, and co-defendants
Ryan Payne and Peter
Santilli.
Each faces 16 felony
charges, also including
assault on a federal officer,
extortion and obstruction of
justice.
A second trial would
start in May for six alleged
“mid-level leaders and
organizers” of the standoff:
Bundy sons Dave and Mel
Bundy, Brian Cavalier,
Micah McGuire, Joseph
O’Shaughnessy and Jason
Woods.
A third trial would begin
in August for six accused
Bundy
followers
and
gunmen: Gregory Burleson,
O. Scott Drexler, Todd
Engel, Ricky Lovelien, Eric
Parker and Steven Stewart.
Ammon
and
Ryan
Bundy were returned to Las
Vegas last month after they
and five other defendants
were acquitted by a federal
court jury in Portland of all
charges.
EPA calls federal study of coal-export project flawed
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would arrive by train from
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other states to be stored and
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permits from the corps,
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EPA said the corps
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and it recommended the
corps’ study be revised
and resubmitted for public
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of Longview reported
Thursday.
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The judge plans a Dec.
9 date-setting hearing in the
case stemming from alle-
gations the men conspired
to create an armed posse
to prevent federal agents
and contract cowboys from
rounding up Bundy cattle
that the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management said were tres-
passing on public land.
Navarro has denied
bids by Bundy and other
defendants to be tried
individually. She called it
“logistically impossible to
try all 17 defendants in a
single trial.”
Federal
prosecutors
filed paperwork Nov. 13
proposing three trials,
grouped
according
to
whether the defendants
were
alleged
leaders,
mid-level organizers or
“follower-gunmen” during
the standoff outside Bunker-
ville.
The first trial would
start Feb. 6 for the accused
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
LONGVIEW, Wash.
(AP) — The Environmental
Protection Agency has
criticized as inadequate
a draft study the Army
Corps of Engineers did
on a proposed coal-export
project in Washington state.
The corps’ draft
environmental review is
flawed because it fails to
take a hard look at potential
environmental impacts,
such as air quality, rail
traffic and climate change,
EPA wrote to the corps in a
letter Tuesday.
Millennium Bulk
Terminals-Longview
is proposing a project
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LAS VEGAS (AP) —
Federal prosecutors want a
judge in Nevada to schedule
a trio of trials for the 17
defendants jailed on charges
stemming from an armed
confrontation in April
2014 with U.S. officials
over grazing rights near
cattleman Cliven Bundy’s
ranch.
But Bundy and his
attorney call in documents
filed Wednesday for all
the defendants to be tried
together.
Otherwise, the defen-
dants who are required
to wait will spend more
months behind bars without
a chance to prove their inno-
cence, Bundy attorney Bret
Whipple said in the request
to Chief U.S. District Judge
Gloria Navarro.
All 17 defendants have
pleaded not guilty to charges
that could get them decades
in federal prison. They
and two others who have
pleaded guilty in the case
remain in federal custody in
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
47/40
PRECIPITATION
Dec 7
John Day
41/35
Ontario
40/25
39°
30°
-7° (1985)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
47/44
Eugene
48/42
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
33° 20°
Spokane
Wenatchee
38/33
41/35
Tacoma
Moses
50/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 40/32
38/35
52/46
48/42
46/31
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
48/45
47/40 Lewiston
47/39
Astoria
42/36
55/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
50/45
Pendleton 35/29
The Dalles 48/40
47/41
48/38
La Grande
Salem
41/36
48/44
Corvallis
48/45
HIGH
41° 23°
Seattle
50/45
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
50° 29°
Today
TUESDAY
Cloudy, a bit of
snow; chilly
Friday, December 2, 2016
analysis of effects is much
too limited, the corps DEIS
does not adequately assess
the potentially significant
environmental impacts
of the proposal,” the EPA
wrote in its letter.
Millennium officials
downplayed EPA’s
comments as just another
step in the process, saying
it’s typical for EPA to
comment on such projects.
“This is one federal
agency commenting
on the work of a sister
federal agency,” said Bill
Chapman, Millennium Bulk
Terminals CEO told the
newspaper.
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National Summary: Rain and snow showers will affect the Great Lakes region with
snow showers over the Rockies today. Rain will gather in Texas and linger in the coastal
Northwest. Winds will buffet parts of California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Stuart, Fla.
Low -9° in Sunrise Mountain, Ariz.
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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
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Oklahoma City
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Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
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San Francisco
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Wichita
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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U.S. overhauls public
land use planning
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP)
— U.S. government officials
on Thursday finalized an
overhaul of how they plan for
oil and gas drilling, mining,
grazing and other activities
across public lands in the
West.
The move by the Bureau
of Land Management aims
to address longstanding
criticism of an often-cum-
bersome
process
that
dictates development across
almost 250 million acres of
federal lands, primarily in
12 Western states and the
Dakotas.
Administration officials
said the changes would
improve public involvement
and government transpar-
ency by adding additional
steps to land-use planning.
Members of Congress,
industry groups and local
officials have raised concerns
about the overhaul’s practical
effects. They’ve said it will
elevate wildlife and environ-
mental preservation above
other uses such as energy
development and shift deci-
sion-making from agency
field offices to Washington,
D.C.
It updates regulations
adopted in 1979.
The Associated Press
obtained details prior to
Thursday’s public announce-
ment.
The timing of the new
rule in the Obama admin-
istration’s last days drew a
rebuke from U.S. Sen. John
Barrasso, who predicted it
would take authority away
from local land managers.
The Wyoming Republican
pledged to work to reverse the
action once President-elect
Donald Trump takes office.
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About 28 percent of
Wyoming’s land and 65
percent of the minerals
beneath its surface are
administered by the Bureau
of Land Management.
“We need better coordi-
nation among state, local and
federal land management
agencies. Massive land-
scape-scale plans directed
from Washington, D.C.,
are not the answer,” said
Barrasso, chairman of the
Senate Subcommittee.
The changes were backed
by conservation and sporting
groups including Trout
Unlimited and the Theodore
Roosevelt
Conservation
Partnership. Joel Webster, the
partnership’s Western lands
director, said the rule would
ensure decisions affecting
wildlife such as mule deer
weren’t hobbled by artificial
boundaries that separate
bureau field offices.
Opponents were “seeing
ghosts” with concerns that
public involvement would be
hurt, he added.
Among other changes,
alternatives for development
would be offered at the
front-end of planning instead
of well into the process.
Bureau Deputy Director
Linda Lance said the intent
is to frontload the process so
that thorny issues are revealed
early. That will reduce the
likelihood of lawsuits or the
need for substantial revisions
down the road, she said.
The federal agency has
160 management plans
for the lands and mineral
reserves that it oversees.
Crafting those plans currently
takes eight years on average.
“The hope is we are going
to shave years off the process,
not days,” Lance said.