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More parking at Meissner? Lawmakers And a new warming shelter, but you will have to wait • seek changes to EPA rules Bend pesticide Takeoff! on biomass maker alleges Federal organization does not government consider energy source renewable shared secrets LOCAL, C1
By Keith Chu The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. House members — including four-fifths of the Oregon delegation — signed onto a letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its stance on biomass power. In the first draft of the agency’s rules overseeing greenhouse gas emissions, the EPA did not considered biomass power a renewable power source, essentially placing it in the same category as fossil fuels. But in the letter, sent Friday, lawmakers asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to exempt biomass power plants from the “tailoring rule” until the agency has a chance to review a host of comments it received on the issue.
By Tim Doran The Bulletin
Suterra, a Bend-based biopesticide maker, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, saying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disclosed Suterra’s trade secrets when it released product ingredients to a California newspaper. In its response to the lawsuit, however, a government lawyer said no trade secrets or business information was released, generally denied all other allegations and asked that the lawsuit be dismissed. The case stems from aerial spraying conducted by the California Department of Food and Agriculture in September 2007 to control an outbreak of the light brown apple moth, according to the lawsuit, which was filed Sept. 27 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. It was the first time the light brown apple moth had been found on the U.S. mainland, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Officials said the pest could damage some 250 plant species, including peaches, plums, grapes and citrus. Suterra’s products control insects by disrupting their mating with synthetic versions of naturally occurring biochemicals like pheromones, chemicals insects excrete to attract a mate or send out other signals. The products do not harm people, animals, the environment or other insects beyond their targeted bugs, Suterra states on its website. They’ve been approved by the EPA. See Suterra / A6
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Rushing waters prevent divers from retrieving woman’s body By Erin Golden The Bulletin
It could be days before divers are able to reach a body believed to be that of missing Bend woman Lori “Woody” Blaylock, officials said Monday. On Saturday, kayakers spotted the body while paddling along a stretch of the North Santiam River east of Detroit Lake, near the town of Idanha. Divers with the Linn County Sheriff’s Office tried to get in the water on Saturday evening, but the water was moving so fast that they risked being swept away with the current. Don Thomson, a spokesman for the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, said water flowing out of the Detroit Reservoir usually runs Lori Blaylock at about 1,400 to 1,500 cubic feet per second. On Saturday, it was at 2,200 cubic feet per second and after some rain showers, it was nearing 5,000 cubic feet per second on Sunday. “The bottom line is that the river itself in the area we’re trying to search rose about two feet between Saturday and Sunday ... (the divers) could only get in several feet before rushing downstream themselves,” he said. See Blaylock / A6
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Randal Seaton, 22, of Bend, grabs his snowboard as he performs an aerial maneuver while riding with friends through the terrain park on Mount Bachelor on Monday morning.
Want to learn snowboarding and other winter sports? Follow along in Community Sports on Tuesdays as Bulletin sports reporter Amanda Miles learns how to enjoy winter in Central Oregon. Her second installment in the series, snowboarding, appears today on Page D1.
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Oregon Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, and Greg Walden, R-Hood River, spearheaded the delaying effort. “The implementation of the Tailoring Rule without recognizing the carbon benefits of renewable biomass threatens future investment in biomass energy, job creation in rural communities, and our collective renewable energy goals,” the lawmakers wrote. “Immediate action is needed by EPA to change the treatment of biomass under the rule to avoid harmful impacts on the biomass energy sector.” The EPA is scheduled to release its final rule on Jan. 2. An EPA spokeswoman didn’t respond to questions about the rulemaking process or the lawmakers’ letter on Monday. See Biomass / A6
New facts to support imaginary dieting
How much money makes you wealthy? It depends
By John Tierney
By Geraldine Baum
New York Times News Service
Los Angeles Times
Call it the Imagine Diet. You wouldn’t have to count calories, track food points or memorize rules. If, say, some alleged friend left a box of chocolate truffles in your home this holiday season, you would neither throw them away nor inhale them all. Instead, you would start eating imaginary chocolates. You would give yourself a few seconds to imagine tasting and chewing one truffle. Then you would imagine eating another ... until at last you could open the box of real chocolates without making a total pig of yourself. So far, the Imagine Diet exists only in my imagination, as does any evidence of its efficacy. But there is some real evidence for the benefits of imaginary eating from experiments at Carnegie Mellon University reported in the current issue of Science. When people imagined themselves eating M&Ms or pieces of cheese, they became less likely to gorge themselves on the real thing. See Imagination / A6
NEW YORK — It’s just not the same on this island as anywhere else. In Manhattan, a monthly parking space goes for $550. A magician for a children’s party asks $650 an hour. The nanny gets Inside $600 a week. • Senate vote Breakfast advances bill, for four at a Page A3 corner diner is $40; a • Reactions dog walker from local is $10,000 legislators, a year; an Page C1 emergency plumber won’t work for less than $250. Occasional spa treatments? “Did you have to ask?” said Ricky Metz, a Manhattan hairdresser who boasted about the combined $310,000 she and her husband earn a year but became embarrassed trying to explain how it is spent. “I know, I know I shouldn’t whine, but in New York unless you’re a millionaire you don’t feel rich. We feel middle class.” See Wealthy / A6
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