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Tuesday, May 1, 2018 |
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Hawaii Recycling is Polluting China--But No More as of May 1
By News Release @ 12:56 AM :: 5392 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...In an effort to clean its environment, China has restricted recyclable commodities and set strict contamination limits. The E-Cycling program cites this shift in the worldwide recycling commodities market for local restrictions....
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Monday, April 23, 2018 |
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Bought and Paid For: Russian Oil Money Flows to US Anti-Fracking Protesters
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:03 PM :: 7163 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics
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...From 2010 through 2015, the Sierra Club Foundation received more than $18 million and Natural Resources Defense Council received more than $15 million....
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 |
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On Holiest Day, Hawaiian Electric Renews Pledge of Obedience to Eco Religion
By News Release @ 2:36 AM :: 5290 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...this can only mean one thing--more rate hikes coming....
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 |
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Green Energy Plan: $2.3B Tax and Rate Hike to Send Even More Money to Elon Musk
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 10831 Views :: Energy, Environment, Land Use, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Over the past 15 years, the people of Hawaii have paid 260% more for electricity than the US average, while gasoline prices consistently hover close to $1-per-gallon higher. (But we can go even higher)....
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Thursday, April 19, 2018 |
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Cleanest Air: Hawaii Joins Oil Rich Wyoming--'Green' California Remains Filthy and Disgusting
By News Release @ 4:09 AM :: 5670 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii, and oil rich Wyoming and N Dakota are among the cleanest--8 of the 10 most ozone polluted cities are in 'green' California ....
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Friday, April 13, 2018 |
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Honolulu World's Best City Sanitation?
By News Release @ 12:28 AM :: 5691 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...Honolulu tops the City Sanitation ranking, followed by Helsinki and Ottawa in joint second, whereas Dhaka (230) and Port au Prince (231) fill the bottom places....
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Monday, April 9, 2018 |
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EA Debunks Hysteria: Aquarium Fishery has 'No Significant Impact'
By News Release @ 11:03 PM :: 4968 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...maybe now attention can be focused on more important issues such as the recent spate of deaths caused by snorkel rentals....
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 |
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DOI moves to rescind 'illegal' threatened species rule
By News Release @ 5:31 PM :: 3725 Views :: Environment
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...the change could affect up to 20 species in Hawaii....
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 |
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Hunt for Few Remaining Rats on Lehua Island
By News Release @ 3:42 PM :: 4767 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...the Project Partners have recruited rat-detection dogs to join the team....
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 |
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Pohakuloa: Court Orders Review of State Lease
By News Release @ 10:26 PM :: 6308 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Military
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...The judge’s order asks for a plan to be submitted to the court by Dec. 28, 2018 which requires a written stewardship plan, regular monitoring and inspections, inspection reports with recommendations, procedures for addressing violations and debris removal plans....
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Monday, April 2, 2018 |
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Lahaina Injection Wells: Is WOTUS Just too Complicated to Enforce?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:20 PM :: 5416 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...If the goal is to guide human action, environmental markets work better than indecipherable regulations....
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Friday, March 30, 2018 |
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Nene Recovery: USFWS Proposes Downlist from Endangered to Threatened
By News Release @ 5:09 PM :: 4584 Views :: Environment
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...Nene proposed for downlisting from endangered to threatened thanks to strong local partnerships....
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018 |
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Obama Marine Monuments Legal? Court to Decide
By Selected News Articles @ 6:50 PM :: 6737 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Obama
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...They argue the sea is not “land owned or controlled by the Federal government and thus not within the president’s proclaiming authority.”....
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Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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DoA Pesticide Report: Science vs Hysteria
By News Release @ 2:21 PM :: 7844 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, GMOs
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...Six-Month Monitoring Levels Meet State & Federal Water Quality Standards....
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Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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Will DLNR Use Sea Level Rise as Excuse to Wipe out Banyan Drive Properties?
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 7295 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Land Use, Tourism
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...The purpose of the RFI is to gauge whether there is interest among prospective developers in obtaining a long-term lease of the Site (but check out the terms)....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Auditor: Ten Years Later, Hawaii's Forgotten 2050 Sustainability Plan
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:27 AM :: 6552 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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...This report found that through the course of the past ten years, the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan was disregarded....
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Friday, March 2, 2018 |
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Maui Mayor Signs Sea Level Proclamation: County Will Grab for More Oceanfront Land
By News Release @ 8:13 PM :: 7526 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Land Use
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...calls on the Planning Department to propose rule changes to the Maui, Molokai and Lanai Planning Commissions to include sea level rise in their shoreline setback calculations....
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Friday, February 23, 2018 |
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Hawaii Bill Banning Plastic Straws Based on Research by a 9-Year-Old
By Selected News Articles @ 3:04 AM :: 8450 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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...the oft-cited, debate-driving statistic that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day is the product of a 9-year-old's guesstimations....
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Friday, February 16, 2018 |
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UH Prof: Sustainability Means Cutting off Mortgage Credit so the Little People Can't Buy Homes
By News Release @ 2:34 PM :: 6512 Views :: Environment, Land Use, Cost of Living
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“...By signaling the importance of financial flows we have highlighted a potential leverage point for implementing sustainable policies….”
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018 |
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Sea Level: Land area of low-lying Tuvalu has increased
By Michael Hansen @ 12:32 AM :: 4223 Views :: Environment
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...Tuvalu has been held-up globally as case study of a place where sea level rise due to man-made global warming will destroy the ability of people to inhabit it....
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Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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DLNR Website Promotes Legal Hiking Trails
By News Release @ 12:53 PM :: 5179 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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...More than 100 Trails in Na Ala Hele Trail & Access Program Featured....
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Friday, January 26, 2018 |
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Hawaii Fishermen’s Alliance and Aquarium Fishery Team Up To Save Industry, Protect Environment
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 6258 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism
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“...The state has a responsibility to ensure its natural resources are managed in a scientifically credible way for the benefit of all its citizens. We look forward to being partners in this important work....”
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Thursday, January 25, 2018 |
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SB2003: Hawaii Senate urged to drop ornamental fish ban
By News Release @ 12:23 PM :: 5622 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...Senate Bill 2003, which is being heard by the Senate Land & Water Committee on Friday, bans the issue of all new aquarium fishing licenses....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 |
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EPA Shuts 19 Illegal Cesspools, $500K Fines
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 5064 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement actions this year in Hawaii resulted in closures of 19 large capacity cesspools (LCC) and over $500,000 in fines....
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Friday, January 19, 2018 |
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Congressional Letter: Kona Resident Funnels Russian Millions to Sierra Club
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 AM :: 11672 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics
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...Russian money flowing to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, 350.org, the Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, the Rainforest Action Network....
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
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Maui Recycling Center Shut Down Due to State Non-Payment
By News Release @ 7:53 PM :: 6290 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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...This closure is due to a delay in payments from the Department of Health. Once the back payments have been received, operations will resume as normal....
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Saturday, January 13, 2018 |
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Lack of Buyer forces Changes to Recycling Programs on Maui
By News Release @ 1:25 AM :: 6410 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...You may have been hearing new terms like China’s Green Fence and The National Sword and wondered what they are and how they impact our community....
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 |
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Sunday, January 7, 2018 |
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Why save the Hawaii Aquarium Fishery?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:26 PM :: 6170 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...We need legislation to save the fishery and all DLNR ocean issued-permit businesses....
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Friday, January 5, 2018 |
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DLNR: West Hawaii Aquarium Fishing Permits Stopped Pending Environmental Review
By News Release @ 6:20 PM :: 5406 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...applying a Hawai‘i Supreme Court ruling from last year to an existing DLNR rule....
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018 |
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Rapid Response Team Deploys to Lehua Island After Two Rats Detected
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 5589 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...We knew from the beginning there was the possibility that a few rats could linger....
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Sunday, December 31, 2017 |
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Report: Hawaii’s Billion-Dollar Consensus Proves Nobody Really Believes in Sea Level Rise
By Andrew Walden @ 7:27 PM :: 9540 Views :: Environment, Rail, Taxes
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...This ‘consensus’ of disbelief is proven by the massive investment in sea-level construction of Kakaako condos and Honolulu Rail....
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules Public has Property Right to a Clean Environment
By Robert Thomas @ 7:23 PM :: 8355 Views :: Energy, Environment, Land Use
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...Does the Supreme Court now have three votes to kill the telescope?....
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Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
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EPA, American Samoa reach revised settlement with Starkist
By News Release @ 7:11 PM :: 4583 Views :: Environment
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...the inclusion of ASG allows approximately one third of the funds to stay in American Samoa....
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Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
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Monday, December 25, 2017 |
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Four Months Later no Rats on Lehua Island
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 5375 Views :: Environment
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...People monitoring the ecosystem recovery on tiny Lehua Island report that - four months after the conclusion of a rat eradication project - there are still no signs of the invasive Pacific Rats....
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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DoH: $1.75B Needed to Replace Cesspools Statewide
By News Release @ 2:07 AM :: 4999 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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...DOH has filed a report with the Legislature identifying 14 priority areas of the state where 43,000 cesspool upgrades are critically needed to protect public health and the environment....
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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Scientists: Latest Round of Kauai Hysterics Wrong
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 5339 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...Tests by USDA Lab Show No Evidence of Diphacinone in Whale Livers....
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Saturday, December 16, 2017 |
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AG Chin: Every time your oceanfront property erodes, the State seizes more of your land
By News Release @ 12:59 AM :: 5468 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin issued a formal advisory opinion today stating that when the shoreline migrates landward (or mauka) due to erosion or sea level rise, the dividing line between public and private ownership also migrates mauka....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Mayors commit to Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles by 2045
By News Release @ 10:39 PM :: 6684 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...Weasel Words Allow Continued use of Fossil Fuels....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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EPA, State of Hawaii receive Navy’s Red Hill Fuel Tank upgrade study
By News Release @ 1:09 AM :: 5307 Views :: Environment, Military
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...Aging fuel storage tanks at Red Hill could soon get an upgrade....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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Trump: Major Changes in Management of Federal Monuments
By Selected News Articles @ 5:34 PM :: 5864 Views :: Environment, OHA, Small Business
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...Interior will make sure local voices are not drowned out by “large, well-funded NGOs and special interests”....
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Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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Kauai: PCBs Found in Westside Kauai Water Tank
By News Release @ 4:24 PM :: 5233 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...where are all the protesters?....
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Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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Lalamilo: Big Island Wind Farm Wants Permit to Kill Bats, Petrels
By News Release @ 2:58 PM :: 5830 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received an application from the Lalamilo Wind Company LLC for an incidental take permit of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and the endangered Hawaiian petrel....
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Friday, December 1, 2017 |
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Kauai Again: This Time it's Stranded Whales--Idiot Legislators Cook up Bizarre Conspiracy Theories
By News Release @ 11:54 PM :: 5477 Views :: Environment, Military
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...“When marine mammals strand themselves it’s usually a signal that something in our environment is out of sync,” said Ing (wrongly)....
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Wrong 25 Years Ago--UH 'scientists' sign SECOND warning notice to humanity
By News Release @ 3:01 PM :: 6111 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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...Actually, life is better now than it ever has been. And the last 25 years have been very prosperous for humanity. But lets not let reality get in the way of eco-socialism....
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Monday, November 27, 2017 |
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Will Legislators Block Shutdown of All Ocean Users?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:23 PM :: 5232 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...Thanks to the State Supreme Court's September 6, 2017 aquarium fishing decision, all ocean users now face the same fate as aquarium fishers--shut down awaiting an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)....
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