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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Clouds and sun, a shower; cooler Clouds limiting sun 52° 35° 56° 42° SUNDAY Cloudy most of the time Cloudy and breezy with a shower PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 54° 38° 52° 36° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 62° 43° 58° 38° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE LOW 62° 61° 86° (1913) 43° 38° 17° (1927) 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 0.48" 0.48" 4.19" 6.45" 4.44" Corvallis 51/42 HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records LOW 65° 64° 84° (1936) Full 6:15 a.m. 7:37 p.m. 5:02 a.m. 4:04 p.m. Last Apr 29 May 7 Caldwell 50/33 Hi 51 49 46 51 44 42 50 50 58 45 42 46 43 52 50 52 55 59 52 53 50 53 51 42 51 53 60 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 Lo 45 27 30 43 23 28 41 35 38 28 24 31 30 37 45 44 34 39 35 44 26 43 32 27 43 38 35 W r pc c sh pc pc r pc pc pc sn pc pc r r r pc pc pc r sh r c pc r pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. Hi 54 55 54 56 53 50 56 56 62 53 54 52 50 62 53 57 59 60 56 56 58 57 49 50 54 57 61 Lo 48 34 36 45 33 36 43 41 43 40 31 39 39 40 48 47 39 46 42 48 36 47 40 37 47 45 43 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r c c pc c c r c c c pc c c pc r pc c c c r c r c c r c c WORLD CITIES Today Hi 72 85 68 58 74 50 58 63 68 90 71 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 42 75 52 47 53 28 46 50 39 72 53 W pc s s c pc pc sh t s s pc Fri. Hi 51 85 75 57 76 51 64 65 66 89 66 Lo 41 72 54 46 52 30 49 50 47 72 53 W r s s c pc s pc pc pc s s WINDS Medford 52/37 Trace 0.46" 0.26" 2.84" 4.98" 3.37" SUN AND MOON Apr 22 Bend 46/30 Burns 44/23 PRECIPITATION Apr 15 John Day 45/28 Ontario 55/34 40° 39° 26° (1997) 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 New First Albany 51/42 Eugene 50/41 TEMPERATURE HIGH 58° 39° Spokane Wenatchee 51/32 55/38 Tacoma Moses 52/40 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 58/36 47/33 50/45 51/41 60/35 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 51/43 53/38 Lewiston 59/39 Astoria 52/37 51/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 53/44 Pendleton 42/28 The Dalles 58/38 52/35 57/41 La Grande Salem 46/31 53/43 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH 58° 39° Seattle 53/44 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 68° 42° Today MONDAY Cloudy and cooler with showers 62° 45° Thursday, April 12, 2018 Today Friday WSW 12-25 W 15-25 SW 7-14 SW 6-12 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 42/24 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today. Breezy in central parts; cool across the north. A shower tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of sun and clouds today with a shower. Windy; colder in central parts. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today with a bit of rain. A shower tonight. Periods of rain tomorrow. Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today. A snow shower in the mountains; a shower across the south and near the Idaho border. Cascades: Snow today, accumulating 3-6 inches in the south and central parts and up to an inch across the north. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today. Snow showers in the interior mountains; showers around at the coast. www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 3 5 3 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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Low 3° in Clayton Lake, Maine 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 79 76 59 74 38 80 48 54 74 78 69 70 81 75 70 89 49 40 83 80 74 76 77 69 80 69 Lo 37 54 53 57 27 56 32 47 57 52 47 54 67 33 49 59 28 29 73 67 59 59 65 50 61 52 W s s pc pc sn s pc r s pc c c pc pc c s pc c pc pc pc s s s s pc Fri. 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Kate Brown has signed into law bills requiring public bodies to contract only with internet providers that practice “net neutrality” and another that assesses a fee on industry to fund a program designed to reveal health risks posed by emissions from specific factories. House Bill 4155, the internet bill, passed both legislative chambers with bipartisan support earlier this year. The law is meant to discourage broadband companies from blocking, slowing down or charging more for certain content. “I’m so pleased and very proud that Oregon passed this legislation due in part to the voices of young people who made their voices heard,” Brown said, before the signing the bill at Mount Tabor Middle School in Portland Monday. House Majority Leader Rep. Jennifer Williamson, D-Portland, the regulations to incentivize internet providers to keep the internet open to both governmental agencies and state residents. The Federal Commu- nications Commission repealed a federal rule on universal net neutrality Dec. 14. The move prompted about 20 states, including Oregon, to the federal government to restore the protections and for dozens of states to consider laws to counteract the decision. Washington on March 6 became the first state in the nation to enact statewide net neutrality regulations that make it illegal for broadband providers to block or slow down certain content, according to The Washington Post. The two new laws could mark the beginning of patchwork internet regula- tions around the nation, the paper reported. ——— Brown proposed Cleaner Air Oregon in Senate Bill 1541 as a response to the discovery of toxic metals in Portland’s air in 2016. “Now communities will know what they’re being exposed to and what risks are posed,” said Rep. Karin Power, D-Milwaukie, during a speech asking lawmakers to pass the bill March 3. The initial legislation would have strengthened state regulators’ authority to require industry to reduce air pollution. But in the interest of getting enough votes to enact the new fee and to give industry more predictable expectations on allowable emissions, the bill’s proponents said they had to agree to limit the state’s authority to respond to pollution. EARTHLINK INTERNET HIGH SPEED INTERNET removal of 150 horses after 2016 fire By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI EO Media Group A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated envi- ronmental law by rounding up wild horses in Eastern Oregon after a 2016 fire. Friends of Animals, a nonprofit group that filed a lawsuit against the BLM, has sought to overturn the agen- cy’s approval of the roundup, which could lead to some horses being returned to the Three Fingers Management Area in Malheur County. The BLM initially conducted an environmental assessment on gathering and removing wild horses from the 62,500-acre area in 2011, but then decided on a small- er-scale roundup in 2016. Shortly before the oper- ation was set to begin in August 2016, however, the Cherry Road wildfire ignited in the area, burning about 15,000 acres of pasture — roughly half the range used by wild horses in the management area. While the planned roundup was canceled due to the fire, the BLM soon decided to conduct an “emer- gency gather” due to the lost forage and limited water sources for the animals. Courtesy Bureau of Land Management The emergency roundup of 150 wild horses in Oregon after a 2016 fire violated environmental law, a judge has ruled. Under the emergency gather, the BLM approved removing 150 horses — up from about 50 before the fire occurred — leaving about 80 to 120 in the area. Friends of Animals alleged the emergency action “went far beyond what was necessary to control the immediate impacts” of the fire without a proper review under the National Environ- mental Policy Act, or NEPA. Instead of permanently removing the horses, the BLM could have examined “relocation, temporary removal, fencing and providing supplemental water” to mitigate the fire’s Get Connected for as low as Get Connected for as low as 14.95/mo. $ 49.99/mo. For the first 3 months (Offers varv bv speed & location) first 12 months HyperLinkh High-Speed Internet Satellite Internet Connection speeds up to 75 Mbps* What you get with HughesNet Satellite Internet: ! 50X faster than DSL!!** ! High speed with fiber optic technology ! Fast speeds up to 25 Mbps ! Available everywhere ! Fast download time for streaming videos, music and more! ! Larger data allowance (up to 50 GB per month) Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. 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The BLM claimed the emergency action met that requirement because it was based on reviews conducted for the previous roundup decisions and other plans for the region. However, the judge disagreed that the BLM took the necessary “hard look” at the emergency gather’s environmental conse- quences, since the agency didn’t analyze the effects of the fire itself or why it was necessary to remove more horses. “The Emergency Gather Decision does not discuss whether there are any new circumstances, information, or effects not previously analyzed since the earlier NEPA documents,” he said. While the approval was “arbitrary and capricious” contrary to the law, the judge said he will separately deliberate on the appropriate remedy for this violation. Lucinda Bach, attorney for the government in this case, said she couldn’t comment on the ruling. Capital Press was unable to reach an attorney from Friends of Animals for comment. 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