WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Considerable
cloudiness
A touch of rain in
the afternoon
45° 38°
54° 41°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy
Today
SUNDAY
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
Sunshine and
patchy clouds
Mostly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
50° 32°
48° 30°
40° 31°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
56° 43°
48° 39°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
40°
32°
41°
27°
67° (1990) -18° (1909)
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
0.19"
0.32"
0.51"
0.32"
0.55"
0.51"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
Bend
43/37
Burns
39/27
0.14"
0.25"
0.36"
0.25"
0.21"
0.36"
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Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
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Jan 24
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4:31 p.m.
1:39 a.m.
12:36 p.m.
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Jan 31
Caldwell
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London
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Considerable cloudiness
today. A little rain; only in the morning in
central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today;
a bit of snow and rain near the Cascades.
Eastern Washington: Cloudy today; a bit of
snow toward the Cascades.
Western Washington: Cloudy today and
tonight with a little rain. Rain tomorrow.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy today; a
little rain, but a snow shower in the interior
mountains.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
WORLD CITIES
John Day
39/35
Ontario
42/30
42°
35°
40°
28°
66° (1953) -10° (1974)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Jan 16
Albany
49/46
Eugene
48/44
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
41° 33°
Spokane
Wenatchee
35/31
38/30
Tacoma
Moses
46/42
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 43/33
37/32
47/45
46/41
46/35
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
46/44
45/38 Lewiston
48/38
Astoria
43/34
49/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
47/43
Pendleton 37/29
The Dalles 48/39
45/38
47/39
La Grande
Salem
41/34
49/46
Corvallis
48/44
HIGH
48° 33°
Seattle
45/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
55° 34°
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
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11+, Extreme
Cascades: A bit of snow and rain today,
except a little rain across the north.
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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SALEM
—
State
lawmakers have released the
first draft of a bill to charge
Oregon industries for emitting
carbon dioxide into the atmo-
sphere and to use the revenue
to invest in projects meant to
slow climate change.
The state’s “cap and invest”
bill emerges after several years
of work and coincides with an
announcement from Wash-
ington lawmakers for a similar
program in their state. The bill
will be considered during the
Legislature’s policymaking
session Feb. 5 to March 11.
Democrats have identified the
legislation as a top priority for
the session.
Modeled after a program in
California, Oregon’s so-called
“Clean Energy Jobs” bill
would set a cap of less than
25,000 tons of CO2 per year
for each company, beginning
in 2021.
“In other words, your
favorite brewery or grocery
store down the street will not
fall under the cap, only the
largest polluters in the state,”
said Brad Reed of Renew
Oregon, a leading proponent
of the bill. “The cap will
decline over time through
2050 to ensure we reach our
reduction targets and provide
certainty for business.”
The estimated 100 Oregon
companies that emit more
than that amount would be
required to buy market-priced
allowances for the excess.
The “price” on emissions is
File photo
Oregon Democrats have released the first draft of a
bill that would require industries emitting more than
25,000 tons of carbon dioxide to buy market-priced
credits. The state would use proceeds from the sale of
credits to fund climate-related projects.
designed to encourage busi-
nesses to adopt technologies
and practices that reduce
their carbon footprint. The
allowances would be sold at
a North American auction and
generate revenue that would
be invested in green-energy
and environmentally friendly
agriculture projects.
The program would even-
tually generate hundreds of
millions of dollars in revenue
that would be invested in proj-
ects that slow climate change,
Dembrow said. The exact
cost of the program has yet
to be calculated, he said. But
previous estimates pegged
revenue at about $700 million
per year.
Investments could include
rebates for electric vehicles,
solar panels on homes or
safety improvements on
bicycle lanes, among other
things, Reed has said.
Carbon trading markets are
gaining momentum around
the globe. China has plans to
launch a carbon market later
this year that would account
for about a quarter of that
country’s industrial emissions,
according to E & E News, a
Washington, D.C., environ-
ment and energy publication.
A cap-and-invest bill in
2016 drew strong opposition
from certain Oregon business
groups, including Associated
Oregon Industries, since
merged into Oregon Business
& Industry.
Mark Johnson, OBI
president and CEO, said the
program would drive up prices
on consumers and drive away
businesses from the state.
“Unfortunately, the legis-
lation introduced (Monday)
is an example of misplaced
U.S. District Court Judge
Anna Brown on Tuesday
ordered Malheur occupation
leader Ryan Payne back into
custody in Oregon. A day
earlier, Payne and members of
the Bundy family were handed
a stunning legal victory in Las
Vegas in a separate case.
Payne must report to the
U.S. District Courthouse in
downtown Portland by noon
Thursday, Brown ruled from
the bench.
“We need to return him
to the position he was in
when he went to Nevada,”
Brown said during a court
hearing Tuesday.
Payne
is
currently on pretrial
release in Las Vegas
and subject to GPS
monitoring. U.S.
Marshals
previ-
ously transported
Payne to Nevada to
face charges related
to a 2014 armed Payne
standoff between
the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, ranchers and members
of the Bundy family.
Payne was granted pretrial
release in December after it
surfaced that prosecutors had
withheld information from
defendants.
The only reason Payne
was released, rather
than being held in
pretrial
custody,
was that he was
“preparing his joint
defense with other
defendants,” Brown
said Tuesday. “Now
that no longer
exists.”
Arranging
Payne’s transporta-
tion from Las Vegas to Port-
land has proven challenging.
U.S. Marshals said they
could take Payne into custody
in Las Vegas and transport
him to Oregon, but that would
take at least one week.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Geoff Barrow said that was
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National Summary: Showers will dot areas from Florida to Wisconsin today, while ice may
glaze spots over the northern and eastern Great Lakes. A storm will gather snow and colder
air over the Rockies and interior Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 81° in Punta Gorda, Fla.
Low -12° in Embarrass, Minn.
NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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priorities,” Johnson said.
“Greenhouse gas emissions
are
decreasing,
while
Oregon’s fiscal crisis is wors-
ening. Rather than pushing
a complex, costly program
to address an issue that busi-
nesses already are making
progress on, legislators need
to focus on a problem only
they can fix — Oregon’s fiscal
instability.”
Tom Koehler, co-found of
Pacific Ethanol and secretary
of the Oregon Business
Alliance on Climate, said he
supports moving forward on
the legislation this year.
“There is a fundamental
decision that needs to be made
now and not danced around:
Do we believe the climate
crisis is real and are we ready
to do our part to make a differ-
ence?” Koehler said.
“We
believe
action
now will benefit Oregon’s
economy and its citizens.”
Democrats Sen. Michael
Dembrow of Portland, and
Rep. Ken Helm of Beaverton
assembled a series of work
groups to address concerns
from business and industry,
environmentalists
and
advocates for minorities and
residents of rural areas. The
lawmakers said they added
several provisions to the bill
designed to help businesses
stay competitive, including
dedicating 20 percent of
revenue to job-generating
projects in rural areas and
legislative
oversight
of
rulemaking to ensure rules
don’t put companies out of
business.
Judge orders Malheur occupation leader Payne back to Oregon
By CONRAD WILSON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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Interest groups respond to ‘cap and invest’ bill
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the government’s preference,
but Brown seemed to want
Payne moved as quickly as
possible.
Commercial fights were
also discussed, but Payne’s
attorneys said his photo ID
was seized by the FBI when
he was arrested along a rural
Oregon highway nearly two
years ago. Identification is
required at airport security.
Brown eventually agreed
to allow Bundy family
supporter Kelli Stewart to
drive Payne the 973 miles
from Las Vegas to Portland,
pending a background check
of Stewart.
A release hearing for Payne
was set for Jan. 23 in Oregon.
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Correctional officer behind bars for
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A Two Rivers correctional officer is behind bars
after allegedly sending sexually explicit messages to a
13-year-old girl.
Roy D. Farber, 31, allegedly provided the girl a phone,
and used it to send her explicit messages and photos. The
girl’s parents discovered the phone, and turned it over to
Kennewick police.
Detectives searched Farber’s home and seized
cellphones and computers to examine later.
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immoral purposes. The investigation is continuing.
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Judge OKs plan to boost spill at
Columbia and Snake dams
PORTLAND (AP) — A federal judge has signed off
on a plan to spill more water over Columbia and Snake
river dams to help protect salmon and steelhead.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon ruled last
spring that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must spill
more water through spillways, rather than turbines. In
his order, he told federal agencies to spend the next year
studying how to release the right amount of water without
creating unintended negative consequences.
He approved the plan Monday.
Conservationists say the extra water will help young
salmon migrate out to sea.
The federal government has appealed Simon’s 2017
ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. If his order is
not overturned, it will go into effect at eight dams in early
April and last until mid-June.
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