Environment

...Honolulu City Council’s Committee on Public Works and Sustainability held a hearing yesterday to discuss a proposal to expand the existing ban to include biodegradable bags....

...something remarkable happened in the last days of our legislative session....

...the amount of land required to grow food has decreased by 65 percent over the last 50 years across the world....

Just one 25-gallon tank of ethanol requires 450 pounds of corn -- the same amount of calories it would take to feed one person for an entire year....

... 7.5 million gallons of contaminated water, toxic soil, trash, fecal matter and human medical waste poured into west Oahu’s ocean waters on Jan. 13, 2011 ....

A federal grand jury in Honolulu returned a 13-count indictment today charging Waste Management of Hawaii Inc....

"It would be an opportunity for us to within the existing resources acquire the easement." --Ige

Biofuels made with corn residue actually release 7 percent more greenhouse gas....

...this finding would not hold if fuel prices were substantively lower than current levels, either from falling prices or fuel-switching to lower cost products....

Here are two examples that may surprise you....

Under this agreement, more water will be returned to the streams of Na Wai ‘Eha, particularly to ‘Iao stream....

Phase III is the middle portion of the property near the existing hotel where two additional hotels and amenities are planned....

...each quota owner would have the right to a specific percentage of the total allowable catch (TAC) in the season....

Bills 35, 36, and 37 were drafted in response to the rampant and illegal stockpiling and grading occurring throughout Leeward communities....

Watch our six minute movie and decide for yourself....

Hawaii is the third largest retailer of ivory and ivory products in the nation....

IRONY: PUC Commissioner Hermina Morita, adored by environmentalists, is facing fines for violating Hawaii conservation and zoning laws....

...leading Democratic senators attended a fundraiser at billionaire Tom Steyer's San Francisco home. The event, for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also featured former Vice President Al Gore....

This is the same worthless job Abercrombie gave to shut Gary Hooser up back in 2011....

Average of more than 770 jobs losses per congressional district....

Drawdown of existing groundwater stocks is likely still decades away....

Looks like they're at it again, a solution in search of a problem....

Eighty-seven percent of respondents to a recent study in Hawai'i want to see a decrease in the number of feral cats in the Hawaiian Islands....

This is the first combined House-Senate Majority package since 2008....

We're losing the bed bug race: Last year we were 33rd....

...the bleeding baby whales are left to suffer an unknown fate in shark-infested waters....

• DATE: Wednesday, January 08, 2014
• TIME: 10:00 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 225, State Capitol

• DATE: Wednesday, January 08, 2014
• TIME: 10:30 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 016, State Capitol

... final  regulations requiring the United States Navy to implement protective measures during training and testing activities off the coasts of California and Hawaii and on the high seas ....

Consumers choose plastic bags far more often than paper or reusable bags to carry their purchases.... 

...ten species that – thanks to the Endangered Species Act’s protections – are either steadily improving or have been recovered and removed from the list of imperiled species....

Because the new predictions are less dire than in the past, the IPCC’s old fans have suddenly become the new climate deniers, calling the IPCC’s latest report “political” and ignoring its key findings....

...the way it was conducted and its honest conclusion gives me more hope than I’ve had in a long time concerning the integrity of climate research....

In a State Public Utility Commission (PUC) hearing this morning, Commissioners issued an order confirming a motor carrier violation for SER Trucking connected with the August 31st sludge spill on the H-1....

While an untrammeled water market would fail to provide the optimal solution, regulators can facilitate efficient water trading by setting appropriate exchange rates....

DLNR is a bully taking away rights, threatening cultural livelihood and even trying to censor what can be shown on television. To this I say, long live “American Jungle”....

“It may take a little time for West Hawaii residents to get used to the sight of the flare burning 24 hours a day, seven days a week, especially at night, but the continuous flare means the system is doing what it’s designed to do.”

A controversial new method to manage fisheries is to assign “catch shares”....

While watching what was happening in other counties, Maui County decided to approach Monsanto - which has farms on both Maui and Molokai - to require disclosure of the company’s restricted-use pesticides and all information about related practices....

North Shore residents and transportation officials have been discussing proposals to improve Laniakea traffic for years....

United States has reduced more carbon dioxide emissions this century than any other nation. The U.S. emissions decline is due in large part to technological advances in natural gas production ....

Now, on a single day, I have been given the gift of multiple news reports each detailing new ways the government is hurting the environment while purporting to save it....

Electronic comments must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on February 3, 2014....