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Sunday, March 3, 2019 |
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Trump knocks 'crazy female senator' Mazie Hirono for comments on men
By Selected News Articles @ 4:41 AM :: 6749 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation
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...when asked about whether she supports the Green New Deal, Hirono responded “Well, I don’t know how people are going to get to Hawaii, but I’m in favor of the plan."....
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 |
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Conservationists Demand Half-Billion Reparations for Dead Hawaiian Tree Snail
By Selected News Articles @ 2:23 PM :: 3393 Views :: Environment
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...Just last month, George, the last known member of this snails species, died without a mate after 14 years in captivity....
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Friday, February 22, 2019 |
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Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Designed to Force New Products Past FDA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:44 PM :: 5298 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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...Sunscreen has been in the news a lot lately. Both Hawaii and Key West, Florida, are trying to ban sunscreens containing certain ingredients....
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 |
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Report: Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop After Aviation Emissions Reclassified as 'International'
By News Release @ 3:32 AM :: 6533 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...By exporting airliner exhaust, the nearly 50% growth in Hawaii tourism numbers since 2008 is simply evaporated from this report.....
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019 |
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WOTUS: Lahaina Injection Wells Case to be Heard by US Supreme Court
By Selected News Articles @ 1:15 PM :: 5918 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...Maui’s attorneys argue the Ninth Circuit’s “radical expansion of point source permitting” goes beyond the CWA’s scope....
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Monday, February 11, 2019 |
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Hearing: Should Auwahi Windfarm Be Allowed to Kill 140 Bats?
By News Release @ 10:02 PM :: 5811 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... the DOFAW hearing will be held at 7:00 pm on February 15, 2019 at Kula Elementary School, 5000 Kula Highway in Kula ....
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Thursday, February 7, 2019 |
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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Aquarium Fishing and Hawaiian Culture
By Selected News Articles @ 11:49 PM :: 4290 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... the ancient Hawaiians were practical people that utilized their natural resources ....
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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There’s insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 AM :: 6295 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Tourism
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...the few studies that have addressed the environmental impacts of sunscreens experimentally “are not representative of real world conditions”....
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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The Simon Abundance Index: Population growth equals greater resources
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:43 AM :: 4495 Views :: Environment, Economy
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...instead of making resources scarcer, population growth has gone hand in hand with greater resource abundance....
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
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Kauai Dairy Quits: "No Regulatory Path Forward"
By News Release @ 8:57 PM :: 6933 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture
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"...we were unable to find a clear regulatory path forward for this innovative and sustainable model of dairy farming...."
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
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City steps up approach to control feral cat population
By News Release @ 8:06 PM :: 4678 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...The Hawaiian Humane Society’s new community cat program coordinator will work with colony caregivers and volunteers to trap, neuter and then return sterilized cats to the colonies they came from....
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |
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Shark Bites: Hawaii Still #2 in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 11:48 AM :: 5134 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...In addition to the 66 unprovoked attacks worldwide, there were also 34 provoked attacks. Those include instances where divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, as well as attacks on spearfishers or people trying to feed sharks....
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
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Why are Climate Alliance governors in states with bad financial conditions?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:16 PM :: 4729 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...the average per-Taxpayer Burden for these 15 states runs almost $24,000—more than four times the average for the other 35 states....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
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The Misinformed, Ineffective War on Styrofoam
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:43 PM :: 4865 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...a recent report on Oahu suggests that a Styrofoam ban is unlikely to reduce litter and increase recycling....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
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DoH cites Maui Land & Pineapple for wastewater violations
By News Release @ 4:36 PM :: 4966 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...The company has been ordered to pay a penalty of $230,000 and construct a new wastewater treatment plant....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 |
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Ill-Fated Ocean Cleanup Boom Collected only 2000kg Plastic
By Andrew Walden @ 10:39 PM :: 5299 Views :: Environment
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...the boom, tagged “Wilson” and “System 001” by OC, is being towed very slowly--between one and three knots--and is not expected to arrive in Hawaii until mid-January....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 |
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Feds to PUC: Stop Approving Bat-Killing Windfarms without Endangered Species Permits
By Selected News Articles @ 5:27 PM :: 7539 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"...HECO has not been coordinating with the Service and DOFAW to verify that a wind energy producer has completed the necessary compliance procedures...."
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Monday, January 7, 2019 |
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Keli'i Akina Interviews Environmental Watchdog Caroll Cox
By Video @ 10:39 PM :: 5554 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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...Carroll Cox has spent decades investigating environmental violations by individuals, companies, and the government....
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Sunday, January 6, 2019 |
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Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches
By Selected News Articles @ 5:26 PM :: 4123 Views :: Environment
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...“Really obvious question: How long until wave action tears up these booms?”--Hawai'i Free Press, May 12, 2017....
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Saturday, January 5, 2019 |
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Auditor: Conveyance Tax Money Misspent by DLNR
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 8:05 PM :: 7129 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Land Use, Taxes
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...In 2005, the Legislature provided the land conservation program with a dedicated funding source – ten percent of conveyance tax collected...here's what happened next....
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Friday, January 4, 2019 |
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US Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court to Hear Maui Injection Wells Case
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 5025 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...the petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 18-260 should be granted, limited to the first question presented ... whether a “discharge of a pollutant” occurs when a pollutant is released from a point source, travels through groundwater, and ultimately migrates to navigable waters....
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Monday, December 31, 2018 |
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Auditor: Styrofoam Ban Doesn't Reduce Litter
By News Release @ 3:13 PM :: 5682 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Small Business
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...H-Power allows recycling without requiring participation in the rituals of the eco-religion....
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Saturday, December 29, 2018 |
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Commissioners Sought for Legacy Land Conservation Commission
By News Release @ 6:20 PM :: 5798 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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...Submit an online application to the Office of the Governor, Boards and Commissions, and learn more about how you can make an impact serving on the Commission....
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Thursday, December 27, 2018 |
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Navy Approves EIS for Hawaii-So Cal Training
By News Release @ 11:59 AM :: 5546 Views :: Environment, Military
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...lots of whining from the usual suspects....
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Sunday, December 23, 2018 |
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Sunday, December 23, 2018 |
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Environmental Council Completes Rewrite of Environmental Review Rules
By News Release @ 3:08 PM :: 6220 Views :: Environment, Development, Small Business
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... The proposed rules now go before the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, which issues a recommendation to the Governor ....
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Sunday, December 23, 2018 |
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Carbon Tax: Will You Fiddle While Paris Burns?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 7281 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...If enacted, the carbon tax would be the fifth special tax imposed on fuel....
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Thursday, December 20, 2018 |
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DoH Fines Hu Honua Biofuel Plant for Water Pollution
By News Release @ 1:05 PM :: 6503 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Environment
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...Between 3,500 and 32,500 gallons of treated industrial wastewater composed of freshwater, acidic metal cleaning solution and residue from the descaling of the boiler was discharged....
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Thursday, December 20, 2018 |
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DLNR, Animal Liberation Nuts Imagine Aquarium Poachers--Post Reward
By News Release @ 3:38 AM :: 4762 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...they're upset because nobody has been accused of violating the law....
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018 |
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HAWSCT's Latest Water Case Isn't About Water
By Robert Thomas @ 7:59 PM :: 6449 Views :: Environment, Judiciary, Land Use
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...Search as you might, there's nothing there that helps or hurts in the water law department....
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Thursday, December 13, 2018 |
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UN Climate Change Confab: Hawaii Promises to Keep Ratepayer Cash Flowing to Silicon Valley Billionaires
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 6215 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...at the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Katowice, Poland....
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018 |
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EPA Moves to Roll Back WOTUS
By Selected News Articles @ 12:36 PM :: 3460 Views :: Environment
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...“For the first time, we are clearly defining the difference between federally protected waterways and state protected waterways”....
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Saturday, December 8, 2018 |
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Auwahi Wind Farm Requests Approval to Kill 140 Hoary Bats
By News Release @ 6:10 PM :: 7057 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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...The requested total bat take is 140 bats (119 in addition to the 21 authorized)....
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Monday, December 3, 2018 |
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WOTUS: Supreme Court Asks US Solicitor General to Weigh in on Maui Injection Wells
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 4920 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...In its petition for certiorari, Maui calls the 9th Circuit Court ruling a “radical expansion of point source permitting,” poised to carry massive liability for Maui and its taxpayers....
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Friday, November 30, 2018 |
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Potential Criminal Prosecution: Hu Honua Violates Water Pollution Laws
By News Release @ 5:21 PM :: 6336 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Environment
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...potential civil penalties of up to $25,000 per day per violation and potential criminal prosecution....
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Friday, November 30, 2018 |
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Stream Flow Ruling Cuts off Lahaina Water Supply
By News Release @ 3:54 PM :: 6019 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development
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...the County intends to develop a new groundwater source within five years, or sooner, which will eventually provide for the full instream flow standard....
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Friday, November 30, 2018 |
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How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia
By Selected News Articles @ 3:19 AM :: 5434 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...Dewanto’s team found the rigid body of an orangutan, half buried under a fallen log next to a scar of freshly cut forest in a peat bog being razed for a new palm plantation....
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Thursday, November 29, 2018 |
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Details of the Horrible Carbon Tax Bill
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 8:11 AM :: 7806 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Establishes a creepy DC-based "Carbon Dividend Trust Fund" that seeks a backdoor two-child limit on families....
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Thursday, November 29, 2018 |
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To ‘Change Society’ -- Hawaii Climate Commission Pushes For State Carbon Tax
By News Release @ 1:47 AM :: 8318 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Any carbon-pricing mechanism should be “adequate to change behavior.” The commission had considered asking that it be “practical” as well, but Sen. Karl Rhoads convinced the members that was a bad idea….
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018 |
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Pine: Gill Family Windfarm Proceeding Against Community Opposition
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 5:08 PM :: 5767 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...After a fierce Neighborhood Board meeting in April where the Board and many in the community opposed the project for its perceived insensitivity to the area, many including myself were under the belief that this project would not proceed until those concerns were addressed....
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Monday, November 26, 2018 |
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4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:45 PM :: 3850 Views :: Environment
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...mass deaths, global food shortages, economic destruction, and national security risks....
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Monday, November 26, 2018 |
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Plastic Straw Ban Crusades Are About Progressive Virtue Signaling, Not Practical Solutions
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:42 PM :: 3639 Views :: Environment
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...why such a seemingly trivial matter has become such a big deal....
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Monday, November 26, 2018 |
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Council Resolution: Ban Cars, Buses from Waikiki by 2030
By News Release @ 2:11 PM :: 6484 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tourism
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... The Public Works, Infrastructure & Sustainability Committee will publicly discuss its Draft 1 of Resolution 18-221 [1] in the City Council Committee Meeting Room, on the 2nd floor of Honolulu Hale, at 1:00 pm Weds ....
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
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Wind Farm: Hearing to Consider Plan to Kill More Bats, Petrels
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 5366 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...The DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) hearing will be held at 6:00 pm on Thursday November 29, 2018 at Kaʻala Elementary School, 130 California Avenue in Wahiawa....
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 |
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A Smaller World
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:12 AM :: 6690 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...These feel-good ideas are placed upon farmers with no consideration of the consequences of its impacts....
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 |
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UH 'Scientists' Assemble Cavalcade of 467 Global Warming Hysterias
By News Release @ 12:46 AM :: 4765 Views :: Environment
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... warming, drought, heatwaves, wildfires, precipitation, floods, storms, sea level rise and changes in land cover and ocean chemistry.... (and lions, tigers, and bears)
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Thursday, November 15, 2018 |
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HR5025: Protect Fishermen from Enviro Fines
By News Release @ 10:57 PM :: 3989 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...Thursday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata’s bill (H.R. 5025) to put sensible time limits on any government fines and penalties for fishing vessels was marked up and passed by the Natural Resources Committee....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 |
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Anti-Pesticide Hysteria: Enviros Shift from Bees to Birds
By Selected News Articles @ 2:37 PM :: 8194 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Greenmail, GMOs
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...As global honeybee population increases, activists blame neonicotinoid pesticides for ‘bird-pocalypse’ that’s not happening....
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Thursday, November 8, 2018 |
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EPA requires closures of 10 illegal cesspools in Hawaii in 2018
By News Release @ 5:42 PM :: 4598 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement actions this year in Hawaii led to closures of 10 large-capacity cesspools and over $640,000 in fines....
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