WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Rain and drizzle
this morning
Mostly cloudy
48° 37°
51° 43°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
A little rain in the
morning
Today
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a snow shower
Intervals of clouds
and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
49° 36°
49° 37°
49° 37°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
48° 41°
52° 36°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
39°
41°
68° (1974)
36°
27°
-8° (1907)
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"
0.53"
0.81"
0.53"
1.06"
0.81"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
48/36
Ontario
42/31
Bend
48/34
41°
38°
41°
28°
63° (1961) -10° (1950)
0.00"
0.43"
0.62"
0.43"
0.61"
0.62"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Jan 24
Full
7:32 a.m.
4:39 p.m.
7:09 a.m.
4:36 p.m.
Last
Jan 31
Feb 7
Caldwell
43/29
Burns
44/24
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
52
43
48
56
44
44
55
49
52
48
48
46
44
51
54
57
42
50
48
55
49
56
38
46
54
50
50
Lo
44
27
34
48
24
31
39
36
36
36
31
34
31
37
46
44
31
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37
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40
30
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
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54
58
46
45
59
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51
52
46
45
57
57
61
45
44
51
55
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59
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54
52
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Lo
44
36
38
47
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
40
70
56
45
68
20
48
60
41
73
55
Lo
19
59
45
37
38
13
39
54
28
64
47
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c
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Wed.
Hi
43
73
50
46
66
20
46
60
46
75
61
Lo
15
63
46
40
39
16
42
40
29
63
45
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
48/31
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Wednesday
NNE 4-8
SSE 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today and
tonight; occasional rain and drizzle across
the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Periods of rain
today; only in the morning across the north.
Mostly cloudy tonight.
Western Washington: Occasional rain and
drizzle today. Overcast tonight; a little rain
at the coast.
Today
SSW 4-8
SSE 4-8
Eastern Washington: A little rain today;
however, a bit of snow in the mountains.
Cascades: Cloudy today; occasional rain and
drizzle, except dry in the south.
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Northern California: Rather cloudy today.
Partly cloudy tonight. A little rain at the
coast tomorrow.
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WINDS
Medford
51/37
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
Jan 16
Albany
55/41
Eugene
55/39
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
51° 37°
Spokane
Wenatchee
38/30
39/29
Tacoma
Moses
53/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 44/34
41/33
51/44
52/38
50/35
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
53/42
50/37 Lewiston
51/35
Astoria
44/35
52/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
55/41
Pendleton 44/31
The Dalles 52/36
48/37
51/40
La Grande
Salem
46/34
56/40
Corvallis
55/39
HIGH
51° 39°
Seattle
52/42
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
52° 36°
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Snow will fall from the central Appalachians and Great Lakes to central
Texas with ice and rain farther south in Texas today. Rain and mountain snow are in store
for the Northwest and Northern California.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 80° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -28° in Jordan, Mont.
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
Hi
42
51
44
41
30
35
43
32
58
30
25
17
32
37
20
41
23
3
81
37
13
62
9
64
24
71
Lo
22
16
33
25
22
12
31
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7
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16
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17
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20
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46
32
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32
50
34
48
23
21
23
35
51
26
46
22
27
81
40
20
51
25
65
30
76
Lo
22
19
22
17
29
17
41
21
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12
17
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22
27
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23
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
17
21
76
25
8
21
46
38
22
10
42
71
27
36
50
26
56
61
16
45
68
59
52
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42
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Lo
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31
32
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27
52
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Wed.
Hi
25
26
76
24
24
26
38
36
34
27
34
72
31
37
36
46
59
62
26
46
71
59
54
70
31
32
Lo
12
15
50
17
17
14
27
22
20
14
21
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15
19
17
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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How Oregon’s cap and trade system would work Oregon conservationists file
By CASSANDRA PROFITA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
PORTLAND — Oregon
lawmakers are considering
a major change in how the
state will go about reducing
its contributions to climate
change.
Right now, there’s nothing
to stop a lot of Oregon busi-
nesses from pumping carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere.
The Clean Energy Jobs
Bill introduced last week
would launch a cap and trade
system that would limit some
of those emissions and charge
businesses for the right to
pollute.
The system would be
similar to existing programs
in California and some Cana-
dian provinces.
How would Oregon’s cap
and trade system work?
The state would set a cap
on total greenhouse emis-
sions, and about 100 compa-
nies in the state’s largest
industries would be required
to buy pollution permits to
cover their emissions.
The bill requires permits
for any business that emits
more than 25,000 metric tons
of carbon dioxide equivalent.
That includes a variety of
large manufacturers, paper
mills, fuel distributors and
utilities.
Over time, the cap on
emissions will come down
and there will be fewer
pollution permits available.
So companies will have
to reduce their emissions,
spend more on permits or
buy credits to offset their
emissions.
How is cap and trade
different from just setting
laws that limit emissions?
This system would create
a new marketplace for pollu-
tion credits that companies
can buy and sell. It would
be designed to link up with
existing markets in California
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dioxide emissions and charge businesses for the right
to pollute.
and Canadian provinces, so
a company in Oregon could
buy pollution credits from a
business in California.
It also creates a market
for offset projects, so a forest
landowner in Oregon could
sell the carbon sequestration
credits from not cutting down
trees. Buying an offset credit
may be a cheaper option
for companies that need to
reduce their emissions or buy
a pollution permit.
Creators of the bill call it
a “cap and invest” program
because the state could make
an estimated $700 million a
year from selling pollution
permits. That money would
then be invested in project
that expand public transit,
solar power, electric vehicles
and home energy efficiency
upgrades that will help reduce
the state’s overall greenhouse
gas emissions.
How much would this
kind of system cut the state’s
greenhouse gas emissions?
The bill mandates reduc-
tions down to 80 percent
of 1990 emission levels by
2050. Supporters say that’s
the only way the state is ever
going to meet its targets for
reducing carbon emissions.
Right now, the state is way
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set in 2007.
“That’s what brings
urgency to this,” said state
Sen. Michael Dembrow, who
helped create the bill as the
chair of the Senate Environ-
ment and Natural Resources
Committee. “It’s very clear
we’re not going to get there if
we don’t have the discipline
of a program that sets a cap
each year and gradually
brings us down.”
Environmental
groups
point to California’s cap and
trade program and its recent
renewal as proof that this
kind of system can reduce
emissions and generate
revenue without hurting the
economy.
What do opponents say
about this idea?
A lot of industries are
opposed to a cap and trade
system in Oregon because
they say it will inevitably raise
prices for all kinds of energy,
which affects businesses as
well as the cost of living for
everyday people.
Oregon Business &
Industry, the Oregon Farm
Bureau and Northwest Food
Processors
Association,
which together represent
thousands of businesses
across the state, have all
spoken out against the Clean
Energy Jobs Bill.
“This
legislation
is
harmful to farmers and
ranchers in Oregon because
it increases our cost of
production and makes us
less competitive,” said Jenny
Dresler of the Oregon Farm
Bureau. “Raising the price
of gas, electricity and natural
gas on everybody will simply
make it harder for Oregon
family farms to survive to the
next generation.”
The bill is designed
to address some of these
concerns by setting revenue
aside to help low-income
families, displaced workers
and rural areas adapt to the
new policy and the effects of
climate change.
With a short legislative
session, what are the
chances this bill is going to
pass this year?
There’s a chance the bill
will pass this session but it
will depend on what else
lawmakers have to tackle. If
Measure 101, the so-called
health care “provider tax,”
doesn’t pass, lawmakers will
likely be too busy with health
care issues to address cap and
trade.
After months of work
group sessions, though,
lawmakers now have a
detailed proposal to work
with. The program isn’t
scheduled to launch until
2021, so the Legislature could
also pick it back up next year.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
issued a statement outlining
her requirements for signing
any bill that creates a cap
and trade system for the
state. They include protecting
people from utility rate
hikes as the state transitions
away from coal-fired power
and investing revenues to
help rural and under-served
communities make the shift
to cleaner energy sources.
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lawsuit to protect rare plant
SALEM (AP) — A group
of Oregon conservationists
is suing the U.S. Forest
Service after it reauthorized
livestock grazing on grass-
lands within Hells Canyon
National Recreation Area.
The
lawsuit,
filed
Wednesday by the Greater
Hells Canyon Council in La
Grande, looks to protect a
rare species of plant known
as Spalding’s catchfly, the
Capital Press reported.
Spalding’s
catchfly,
which is found only in
eastern Washington, north-
east Oregon, west-central
Idaho, western Montana and
British Columbia, Canada,
is listed as threatened under
the Endangered Species
Act.
The Forest Service
is obligated to protect
Spalding’s catchfly under
the Hells Canyon National
Recreation Area Compre-
hensive Management Plan,
Greater Hells Canyon
Council
Conservation
Director Veronica Warnock
said.
“This isn’t about a
rancher doing something
wrong,” Warnock said.
“This is about the Forest
Service ignoring manage-
ment recommendations on
how to protect and recover
a threatened species, some-
thing it is required to do in
Hells Canyon.”
A
Forest
Service
spokesman said the agency
cannot comment on pending
litigation.
Darilyn Brown, execu-
tive director of the Greater
Hells Canyon Council, said
delisting Spalding’s catchfly
is the ultimate goal.
“The area in dispute is
really just a small fraction
of the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest,” Brown
said. “However, it could
have a big impact on the
recovery of Spalding’s
catchfly.”
Fewer
than
1,000
catchfly plants are known
to exist in the grazing area
along the lower Imnaha
River in Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest.
The Hells Canyon
National Recreation Area
is part of the forest, though
the areas are technically
managed under different
forest plans.
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