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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 :: 4019 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 :: 5308 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 :: 4538 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 :: 3702 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 :: 5364 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 :: 6631 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 :: 6217 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 :: 5614 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 :: 6486 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 :: 7294 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 :: 5537 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 :: 3606 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 :: 4320 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 :: 5281 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 :: 4714 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 :: 4232 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 :: 10435 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 :: 5504 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 :: 5270 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 :: 5345 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 :: 4674 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 :: 4780 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 :: 8372 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 :: 7185 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 :: 3617 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 :: 4575 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 :: 4197 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 :: 4519 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 :: 4683 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 :: 5783 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 :: 4410 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 :: 5046 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 :: 4474 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 :: 4942 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 :: 4601 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 :: 4957 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 :: 4458 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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Monday, November 27, 2017 |
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DLNR: Did Anti-Ratbait Activists Kill 45 Mullet?
By News Release @ 3:38 PM :: 3484 Views :: Environment
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...It is also not clear whether or not the fish were intentionally placed in a tide pool on the northern side of Lehua Island....
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Saturday, November 25, 2017 |
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After 30 Years, Alarmists Are Still Predicting A Global Warming ‘Apocalypse’
By Selected News Articles @ 8:13 PM :: 4237 Views :: Environment
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... a global warming “apocalypse” that will flood coastal cities, tear up roads and bridges with mega-storms and bring widespread famine and misery to much of the world ....
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Saturday, November 25, 2017 |
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
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Western Congressional Caucus Backs Review of Obama Tuna Monuments
By News Release @ 1:46 PM :: 4224 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...It is time to bring more jobs and economic freedom to the West....
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Sunday, November 12, 2017 |
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UH: Global Warming Will Make Your Intestines Leak
By News Release @ 3:05 PM :: 4355 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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...Kidney failure, blood clots, cardiac arrest, inflammation of the pancreas, leaking intestines....
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Sunday, November 5, 2017 |
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Fake Data Behind Coral Bleaching Report
By Selected News Articles @ 1:47 PM :: 7625 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...in the early 1900s Ahi, Aku, Marlin and other pelagic fish, were reported in the commercial reef fish data. Then they separated the pelagic and reef fish. This alone accounted most of the 90% decline....
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 |
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DoH Website Reports Beach Water Quality
By News Release @ 4:05 AM :: 4861 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...Upgrades provide easier navigation and more information....
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Monday, October 30, 2017 |
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HR3990: Congress Moves to Limit Presidential Monument Authority
By News Release @ 9:06 PM :: 6007 Views :: Environment, Economy, Obama
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...“Congress never intended to give one individual the power to unilaterally seize enormous swathes of our nation’s public lands…."
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