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Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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Hawaii Officials Promise Changes to Seawall Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 6:09 PM :: 2903 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... Officials now pledge action, after a Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica investigation ....
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Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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City and County of Honolulu releases inaugural Climate Action Plan
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 3545 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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... required step to uphold the Paris climate agreement ....
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Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: PUC Approves New Battery Incentive Scheme for HECO
By News Release @ 9:07 PM :: 3575 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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... Ratepayer money will be shoveled to Elon Musk to buy batteries ....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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Aloha Stadium Draft EIS Released
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 3675 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development
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...The DEIS has been posted online and public comments are encouraged....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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Caldwell signs key climate bills and releases 2020 City Sustainability Report
By News Release @ 11:36 PM :: 3216 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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..."Biden has stated he’s going to focus on economic recovery and climate change, and these bills ensure we’re ready to partner on day one”....
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Sunday, December 20, 2020 |
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Will Courts Stop Presidents From Calling Oceans ‘National Monuments’?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:32 AM :: 2168 Views :: Environment
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...The case involves the Antiquities Act of 1906, which allows the president to proclaim landmarks and structures with historic and scientific interest as national monuments....
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Friday, December 18, 2020 |
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Big Brother Is Watching: Satellites Used to Survey Fishing in High Seas
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 2812 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... Rounding out the top ten of most active companies were a series of Chinese corporations and one U.S. corporation based out of Hawaii. Two other key figures in the top ten list were Sajo Group and Dongwon, two Korean companies that own the United States subsidiary Starkist ....
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020 |
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Thursday, November 19, 2020 |
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Oceanfront Property Tied to Obama Granted Exemption From Hawaii’s Environmental Laws
By Selected News Articles @ 9:22 PM :: 6541 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Obama
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...Environmental laws are for the little people, not the environmentalists....
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Thursday, November 5, 2020 |
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DLNR Steps Up Efforts to Manage Homelessness Across Public Lands
By Selected News Articles @ 9:20 PM :: 3620 Views :: Environment, Homelessness, Land Use
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...“I don’t see any end in sight, really, because it just seems to have gotten worse"....
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 |
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How to diversify Hawaii's economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:35 PM :: 3523 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Tourism
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“...If all of us had to go back and work in the agricultural sector, we’re not as productive in that, and we would lose income....”
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Monday, October 12, 2020 |
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Lemming News: Maui County Jumps on 'Sue Big Oil' Bandwagon
By News Release @ 6:57 PM :: 3356 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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...every court to reach the substance of the allegations has dismissed them—including the U.S. Supreme Court....
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Friday, October 9, 2020 |
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Caldwell: Global Warming causing Rain Bombs
By News Release @ 1:03 AM :: 2680 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...City initiates “Climate Ready O‘ahu” adaptation strategy; welcomes resident participation and engagement via on-line tools launched today....
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 |
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Navy Issues Red Hill Remediation Contracts
By News Release @ 2:18 AM :: 3295 Views :: Environment, Military
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...to adapt an existing commercial membrane technology for upgrading fuel storage tanks at Red Hill....
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Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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Atrazine to Be Banned in Hawaii, Territories
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 3237 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...in the wake of a legal agreement between the EPA and the Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America....
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Saturday, September 19, 2020 |
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Ninth Circuit Upholds Planned Pentagon Buildup on Guam
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 2603 Views :: Environment, Military
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... A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday affirmed a federal judge’s finding that the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense properly assessed the environmental impact ....
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Friday, September 11, 2020 |
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The New Champion Of Private Property Rights Is … Barack Obama?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 AM :: 5661 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Land Use, Obama
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...Obama and his longtime colleague Marty Nesbitt want a 100-year-old sea wall rebuilt and fortified to protect a planned Hawaii retreat....
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Saturday, September 5, 2020 |
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Moving the Smokestack: How Clean is Your Electric Vehicle?
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 4815 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...in Honolulu, the 2016 Porsche Cayenne S e-Hybrid is only 2mpg better than the vehicular embodiment of excess--the 2010 Hummer H3....
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Saturday, September 5, 2020 |
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Army Announces Intent to Prepare EIS for Pohakuloa
By News Release @ 7:01 AM :: 3455 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Military
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...environmental impact statement to analyze its proposal to retain up to approximately 23,000 acres of state-owned land at Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA) to support continued military training....
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Saturday, August 29, 2020 |
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Enviros: Haunama Bay Better Off When We Kick the Little People Out
By News Release @ 10:52 PM :: 3860 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, COVID-19
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...Since the March 18 closure in response to the pandemic, only researchers and staff have left foot prints on the shoreline of the nature preserve....
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Saturday, August 15, 2020 |
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Hawaiian Burials Dug up to Make Way for Obama’s Oceanfront Septic Tank
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 PM :: 6178 Views :: Environment, Politicians
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...Eco-Hypocrisy: How Obama Got a Legal Seawall for Another 55 Years....
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Friday, July 17, 2020 |
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EPA: Waters Around Two Hawaii Beaches Impaired by Plastic Pollution
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 3199 Views :: Environment, Greenmail
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...Next Step: Federally-mandated state-funded beachcombing as an act of pennance in the eco-religion....
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 |
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City Announces Progress on Sewage System Consent Decree
By News Release @ 7:09 PM :: 3720 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...In 2010, the city estimated that it would spend $3.4 billion in capital costs through fiscal year 2020....
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 |
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Saving coral reef fisheries with management areas
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 2603 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...setting aside some areas where fishing is prohibited....
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 |
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EPA orders the closure of 16 cesspools on Kauai
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 2787 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...EPA has taken enforcement actions in Kauai to close 16 pollution-causing large capacity cesspools and collect $55,182 in penalties....
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Saturday, May 30, 2020 |
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Case, Gabbard Pursue First National Forest for Hawai’i
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 3663 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Congressional Delegation
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...Their legislation follows their recent initiative to create Hawaii’s first National Heritage Area at Ka’ena Point....
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Saturday, May 23, 2020 |
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BLNR Rejects Aquarium Fishing EIS
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 3624 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Small Business
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...The over 2000-page EIS had been produced by a group of ten West Hawaiʻi aquarium fishers and the National Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, on their proposal to ask the DLNR to issue permits to the ten aquarium fishers....
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 |
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List of State Parks Reopening
By News Release @ 5:16 PM :: 2920 Views :: Environment, COVID-19
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"...as long as people are moving past each other, even if they’re within 6 ft of each other and not wearing a mask, we wouldn’t categorize those persons as anything but low risk at most and likely no risk...." -- State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park
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Monday, April 27, 2020 |
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Lahaina Injection Wells: Ad hoc rules and non-exhaustive lists of "factors"
By Robert Thomas @ 3:57 AM :: 3286 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...the usual result is going to be that you run a big risk if you don't get a permit....
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
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Planet of the Humans: Michael Moore Debunks Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative
By Video @ 1:51 PM :: 4695 Views :: Energy, Environment, First Amendment
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"...No amount of batteries are going to save us, warns director Jeff Gibbs...."
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
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Maui Injection Wells: Supreme Court Overturns 9th Circuit, Creates New Test
By Court House News @ 1:30 PM :: 3305 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...a 6-3 majority found that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling went too far. At the same time, however, the court declined to adopt the reading of the law advanced by the county....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
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Hawaii Air Quality Cleanest in the Nation
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 2839 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...Honolulu City and County set record levels for low amounts of annual particle pollution....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
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Global Warmers Feeling Forgotten: Civil Beat Agrees to Help
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 2737 Views :: Environment, COVID-19
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...Do you remember to panic? Media will try to remind you....
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Friday, April 17, 2020 |
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Judge Orders Habitat Protection for 14 Hawaii Species
By News Release @ 3:18 PM :: 3658 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Environment
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...The rare species, which are now required to receive protection no later than Feb. 29, 2024, include 12 plants, one anchialine pool shrimp and a picture-wing fly....
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Friday, April 3, 2020 |
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Enviros Use Sharks as Excuse in Latest Attack on Hawaii Fishing Industry
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 2705 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...Groups Sue to Protect Imperiled Pacific Oceanic Whitetip Sharks....
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020 |
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Kauai Seabird Habitat Conservation Plan -- Public Comments Open
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 3773 Views :: Kauai County, Education K-12, Environment
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...written comments must be received from interested parties no later than April 13, 2020....
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Sunday, March 22, 2020 |
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Honolulu Sues 'Big Oil' -- Fatal Flaws in Evidence
By Selected News Articles @ 9:18 PM :: 3307 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...Why is this latest effort by Hawaiian officials political suicide? Because ……. Sher Edling....
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Sunday, March 15, 2020 |
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Green Fees – But Not the Golfing Kind
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4071 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Tourism
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...per visitor, per stay charges the money from which goes to protect and preserve the environment....
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020 |
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6 Years Later: Navy Brings Red Hill Tank 5 Back into Service
By News Release @ 7:05 PM :: 3599 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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...In early 2014, a release was identified from Red Hill Tank 5. This release occurred during the refilling process after the tank was cleaned, inspected, and repaired....
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020 |
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The Futility of Trying to Reduce Driving
By Selected News Articles @ 2:16 PM :: 3857 Views :: Energy, Environment, Rail
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...Cars have been more energy efficient than transit buses since 1991....
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Monday, March 9, 2020 |
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EPA requiring closures of 12 Big Isle cesspools
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 4086 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Small Business
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...EPA inspectors identified multi-unit residential buildings illegally discharging wastewater into eleven cesspools in Kealakekua, Hawaii....
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Monday, March 9, 2020 |
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Forest Service, DLNR Sign 'Shared Stewardship' Agreement
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 2201 Views :: Environment
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...Hawai‘i is the thirteenth U.S. state to sign a Shared Stewardship Agreement with the USDA Forest Service (USFS)....
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Friday, March 6, 2020 |
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The green case for Jones Act reform
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:31 PM :: 17780 Views :: Environment, Jones Act
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...the pros and cons of ships, trucks and trains....
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Thursday, March 5, 2020 |
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Feds Agree to Consider Protections for Hawaii’s Cauliflower Coral
By Court House News @ 10:00 AM :: 2461 Views :: Environment
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...The National Marine Fisheries Service has until June 30 to make its decision....
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Saturday, February 29, 2020 |
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The Perverse Panic over Plastic
By Selected News Articles @ 3:57 AM :: 2842 Views :: Environment
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...The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public....
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Saturday, February 29, 2020 |
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Hawaii Wind and Solar -- Dirty Secret Boosts Warming
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 AM :: 3887 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...It's the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years....
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