Environment

... a special fund set up in the City Charter of Honolulu that is fed automatically by an earmark on property tax revenues ....

...reactivation of the Navy’s ʻAiea Hālawa Shaft as a water source for the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Public Water System....

...A federal judge rejected the Navy's bid to kill a citizen lawsuit over 2021 jet fuel releases at Pearl Harbor's Red Hill facility....

... Enviros sue to block 31 million-acre deep-sea mining lease off American Samoa ....

... States prioritizing renewables over reliability, affordability see higher costs ....

... Public Input Invited Through an Online Survey and Public Hearing ....

... a 'resilient' and 'sustainable' slush fund ....

... A watchdog organization filed a complaint Monday accusing the University of Hawaii of unlawfully withholding public records that reveal whether climate activists and legal advocates influence climate lawsuits ....

... Kanoelehua Hill, Kahului, Māʻalaea and Puna generating stations were identified as the top contributors of human-caused, haze-causing pollution ....

"...can operate on a variety of liquid fuels...and can be converted to run on liquefied natural gas if it becomes available...."

"Perhaps electrical grids are more complicated than the mandates."

...Performance-Based Regulation, adopted by PUC in 2020, (PBR) fundamentally changed HECO's financial incentives in a way that made pursuing LNG much less attractive....

Solar farm sacrifice zones.

"...The impacts to an endangered Hawaiian bee that moved into the redevelopment area were not included in previous environmental reviews...."

... The Trump administration has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to stop the litigation ....

...The Hartley/Roberts report’s centerpiece assumption of installing 5,243 MW of utility-scale solar on 31,500 acres on Oʻahu is deeply flawed....

... Thirteen Democrat-led states can continue pursuing their lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of terminating multi-billion dollar clean energy programs without congressional approval ....

...A federal judge ruled Tuesday that claims Maui County operates streetlights that disorient and kill protected Hawaiian seabirds must go to trial....

...Onerous restrictions unnecessarily prohibited commercial fishing within areas of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, removing job opportunities for American workers....

"After Hawaii submitted its SIP revision, Hawaiian Electric Company noted that these unconsented closures could have negative impacts to grid reliability on the islands of Maui and Hawaii"