Associated Press: The U.S. Forest Service plans to alter its environmental standards to allow a proposed $800 million natural-gas pipeline to run through 47 miles of Mount Hood National Forest. The proposed Palomar pipeline would require opening a path measuring 120 feet wide. The path would stretch through forest areas that have been protected from clear-cutting and other disturbances under the department’s management plans. The Forest Service would also have to revise other rules, such as …