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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 :: 8250 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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Sunday, October 29, 2017 |
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Karma: Supreme Court Aquarium Ruling may apply to Dive Tour Operators
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 PM :: 8822 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...The Supreme Court Ruling will have far reaching impacts on all ocean permits issued by DLNR....
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Sunday, October 29, 2017 |
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Should Surfrider be Licensed to Pass Out Property Tax Exemptions?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 9065 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Small Business, Tax Credits
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...Recently, the Honolulu City Council approved on first reading Bill 80 (2017), which would award a real property tax exemption to “ocean-friendly restaurants.”...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017 |
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Audit: City Loses $36.5M by Not Recycling Paper and Plastic into Electricity
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 8784 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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... cost-benefit comparison of recycling selected materials versus incinerating them at H-POWER ....
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Saturday, October 28, 2017 |
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Judge Invalidates Aquarium Collectors Permits
By News Release @ 3:59 AM :: 8800 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism
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...DLNR continues to believe that existing aquarium fishing practices are sustainable and environmentally sound....
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Monday, October 23, 2017 |
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UH: Permafrost Discovered in Hawaii--Proves Global Warming is Real
By News Release @ 9:36 PM :: 5932 Views :: Environment
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...A much bigger body of ice was identified in a neighboring cinder cone crater, Pu'uhaukea....
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Sunday, October 22, 2017 |
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Video: Hysteria Subsides, Lehua Island Rat Eradication Successful
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 7214 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...Flashback: Rumors and Rage: When Good Conservation Sounds Bad....
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Friday, October 6, 2017 |
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Free Rein for Choppers Drives Park Enthusiasts to Court
By Selected News Articles @ 11:39 AM :: 5958 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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...Wednesday’s lawsuit says there were 14,645 commercial air tours conducted over the Hawaii Volcanoes alone....
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 |
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State Climate Change Adaptation Commission to Meet in Doomed Oceanfront Hotel
By News Release @ 7:54 PM :: 4481 Views :: Environment
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...It is open to everyone and will be held on October 11, 2017 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki Beach Resort, Coral Ballrooms 1 & 2 from 8:30 AM to 12:45 PM....
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Thursday, September 28, 2017 |
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BLNR Approves Telescope 5-2
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 8870 Views :: Environment, Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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...the Board adopted today the recommendation of retired judge Riki May Amano to approve the application for a Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) to build the Thirty-Meter Telescope....
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 |
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Data vs Hype: Honolulu NOAA Chart Shows Sea Level Rise is a False Crisis
By Selected News Articles @ 1:20 PM :: 8296 Views :: Environment
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...Honolulu has seen an average sea-level rise of only 5.6 inches since 1900....
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Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
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Am Samoa: Feds Settle with StarKist
By News Release @ 1:15 AM :: 5854 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...StarKist will pay a $6.3 million penalty and provide emergency response equipment to the American Samoa Department of Public Safety, Fire Services Bureau....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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Supreme Court: Aquarium Fisheries Sacrificed on Altar of Tourism
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 PM :: 7812 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...The purpose of the Supreme Court is to give the enviros whatever they ask for. Why? Because the enviros are agents of the State’s #1 industry—tourism and land development....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Rumors and Rage: When Good Conservation Sounds Bad
By Selected News Articles @ 1:13 PM :: 7633 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...The Kauai Garden Isle's inflammatory headline shouted “POISON DROPPED” in inch-high letters....
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Thursday, September 7, 2017 |
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Hawaii Braces for High Costs of Renewable Energy Mandates
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 PM :: 8093 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...HECO has acknowledged rates could rise by more than 44 percent when PSIP is fully implemented....
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Saturday, September 2, 2017 |
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King Tide Floods? City Installed Valve Makes Them Worse
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 6:51 PM :: 6951 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...but it helps generate more 'sea level rise' photos....
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Monday, August 28, 2017 |
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After Decade of Litigation, Supreme Court Refuses to Order State to Repair Gold Coast Seawalls
By News Release @ 10:59 PM :: 6817 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...The Court ruled the State holds an easement over the seawalls and is not liable for attorneys’ fees....
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Monday, August 28, 2017 |
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Trump has the authority to modify existing monument boundaries
By News Release @ 4:47 AM :: 6446 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Presidents Bush and Obama mocked the Antiquities Act’s limitation that monuments can only be designated on federal ‘land’ by designating huge ocean monuments....
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Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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Lawsuit Filed Over Kauai Bird Deaths--HDOT Claims to be in Compliance
By News Release @ 4:39 AM :: 6651 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...HDOT recently expended hundreds of millions of dollars to install energy efficient lighting improvements at the State airports and commercial harbors....
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 7259 Views :: Environment, OHA, Small Business
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...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
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DLNR Sea Level Rise Adaptation Meeting Set for Hilo, Kona
By News Release @ 7:35 PM :: 7737 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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...Believe this? Got Hawaii oceanfront real estate? I will buy it off you for 10% of assessed value cash money....
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
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Killer Windfarms: Why do we subsidize the slaughter?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:44 AM :: 7620 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...a proposed Hawaii wind farm admits it will be lethal and seeks government permission to commence the killing....
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Friday, July 28, 2017 |
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Full Text: PIG Proposes Updated EIS Rules
By News Release @ 6:16 PM :: 4754 Views :: Environment
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...Preliminary Draft of Proposed Revisions to Hawaiʻi Administrative Rules Title 11 Department of Health Chapter 200 Environmental Impact Statement Rules....
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Friday, July 14, 2017 |
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Constitutional Limits on States’ Efforts to “Uphold” the Paris Agreement
By News Release @ 12:41 AM :: 4495 Views :: Environment
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...On June 6, the Governor of Hawaii signed two bills that his office described as supporting the Paris Agreement....
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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DLNR: Napali Coast a Better Place with Squatters Out
By News Release @ 11:13 PM :: 8816 Views :: Environment, Homelessness, Drugs
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...A three day operation last week resulted in additional arrests and the dismantling of large, illegal camps in Kalalau Valley....
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Monday, July 3, 2017 |
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Is This the End to the Hawaii Aquarium Fishery?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:56 AM :: 6088 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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The Hawaii Aquarium fishery was proven sustainable by a 17 year study of the fishery....
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Monday, June 26, 2017 |
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SB1240: Science Beats Anti-Aquarium Hysteria
By News Release @ 1:52 AM :: 6214 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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“The Hawaii aquarium fishing community has offered alternative legislation and a willingness to work with DLNR to improve the permit system and ensure that it is based in sound science”
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Saturday, June 24, 2017 |
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Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Whales
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 PM :: 10717 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The noise generated by wind turbines affected the sonar that whales use to navigate, causing them to beach themselves....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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Mother Jones: World Health Organization called RoundUp a “probable carcinogen,” but it didn’t have all the facts.
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 PM :: 8659 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...A Scientist Didn’t Disclose Important Data—and Let Everyone Believe a Popular Weedkiller Causes Cancer....
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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After Pushing Bogus Coral Sunscreen Bills, Hawaii Surfrider Collects Payoff from Manufacturer
By News Release @ 1:29 AM :: 7355 Views :: Environment, Greenmail
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...According to Nature and Scientific American, claims of coral damage from sunscreen are a bunch of hype....
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Monday, June 19, 2017 |
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Global Warming: UH Professors Say Everybody in Hawaii Will Burn to Death. Soon. Real soon.
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 6660 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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“Our study shows...it takes very little warming for conditions to turn deadly in the tropics.”
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Friday, June 16, 2017 |
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State Recycling Program: A Decade of Fraud (Part 6)
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:18 AM :: 7554 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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The Department of Health, which administers the Program, has been aware of this flawed payment system since 2006 but has done little to address it....
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii GOP: Ige Paris Accord Grandstanding will Cost Hawaii Consumers
By Shirlene Ostrov @ 1:31 AM :: 7492 Views :: Environment, Republican Party
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...Democrats—who so piously declare themselves champions of the middle class and working families—will have accomplished nothing but to further increase the already exorbitant cost of living in Hawaii....
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Friday, June 9, 2017 |
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Global Warmers: Waikiki Sea Level Rise Will Drown Trump Hotel
By Andrew Walden @ 12:43 AM :: 4220 Views :: Environment
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...oddly enough, global warmers are still not lining up to accept my very generous offer of 10% of assessed value for their Hawaii oceanfront real estate....
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017 |
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Maui Mayor Signs Polystyrene Ban
By News Release @ 12:11 AM :: 9115 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Small Business
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The law is set to go into effect on Dec. 31, 2018....
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
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Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essentially Zero Environmental Benefits
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:59 PM :: 10730 Views :: Energy, Environment, Economy
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...policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures....
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
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Rat Lungworm: The Cost of Unintended Consequences
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:55 PM :: 9780 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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As case number 15 of rat lungworm disease came to light last month, my blood boils a bit because of what has happened over the last several years....
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
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Q-Mark Shreds its Own Reputation with Poll Claiming Anti-Aquarium Hysteria Reaches 90%
By News Release @ 10:50 PM :: 8028 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...Does anybody really believe that 90% of the public has even heard of the aquarium fisheries issue--much less have an opinion on it?
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Thursday, May 25, 2017 |
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UH Manoa Prof Freaks Out After DOI Lightly Edits New Release On Climate Change
By Selected News Articles @ 2:33 AM :: 4956 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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The DOI allegedly removed from this sentence: “Global climate change drives sea-level rise, increasing the frequency of coastal flooding.”
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Saturday, May 20, 2017 |
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UH Announces Plan to Use Upcoming King Tides for Global Warming Propaganda
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 AM :: 6873 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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...UH plans King Tides “citizen science” project -- submitting photos online....
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Friday, May 12, 2017 |
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Wind Power Is ‘Neither Clean Nor Green’
By News Release @ 10:27 PM :: 8130 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“There is a limit to how much energy you can extract from a moving fluid, the Betz limit, and wind turbines are already close to it ….
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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Anti-Dairy Activism Spreads: Big Island Dairy faces fine, possible lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:43 PM :: 9259 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Agriculture
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...The fine is based on an inspection DOH officials did March 28-29 in response to Democratic Party insiders....
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Thursday, May 4, 2017 |
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The First Step in Revoking Obama’s Land (and Ocean) Grab
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:56 PM :: 6242 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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What is done by executive power can be undone by executive power....
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
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Saturday, April 22, 2017 |
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HECO Touts Green Energy Progress on Earth Day
By News Release @ 4:45 AM :: 6373 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...in 2016 26 percent of the electricity used by customers came from renewable resources - up from 23 percent the year before....
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