Environment

"Commercial aquarium fish collecting, in fact, does not occur to any great extent off most of the Hawaiian Islands...."

July, 2015: East Oahu: 400 Testify Against Federal Takeover of Maunalua Bay....

Here's the trick.  The 'second' biofuel plant will soon be the 'only' biofuel plant....

...Justice Pollack benchslapped the Department on each of the three variance standards....

After a seven-year circus of cowardly delay, the President's decision to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline is just one more indication of an utter disdain and disregard for salt-of-the-earth, middle-class working Americans....

...as it develops and adopts rules for its operation and administration....

Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it's still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill....

The Dole fruit and Dow chemical companies must face a lawsuit from migrant farm workers who claim they were harmed by a pesticide, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled....

Completed applications must be received by December 22, 2015....

...the Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended an existing green vehicle tax credit to the new breed of diesels....

Since Aug. 5th, the 145 active vessels in the Hawaii longline fleet have been prohibited from catching bigeye tuna....

Several states opposed the stay, including Hawaii...

The proposed species occupy 11 types of ecosystems....

EPA, State of Hawaii negotiate final settlement with U.S. Navy to upgrade Red Hill storage tanks....

The Service will not be designating Critical Habitat areas for these species at this time due to insufficient information....

Hawaii had not met targets on some key items in the Notice of Non-Compliance corrective action plan....

President Obama may follow the example of his predecessor George W. Bush and unilaterally designate large swaths of coastal America as “national monuments.”....

The meeting will be held at Washington Middle School from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Weds Sept 30....

...ohia trees are dying due to a fungal disease....

In the 1930s, residents and visitors could travel between Hawaii’s islands by boat....

Paper and cardboard should go to H-Power....

The Rule asserts jurisdiction over waters that are remote and intermittent waters....

The U.S. already leads the world in carbon emissions reduction thanks to the increased use of natural gas obtained through fracking....

... Caldwell 'Running from Controversy', 'Wasn't Around' During Crisis, 'Not the First Time' ....

... Hu Honua is #1 ....

The judge determined that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued 30 year permits to wind-energy companies without first conducting an environmental-impact assessment....

..."mission creep" could well set in....

The U.S. Army managed Yellowstone and other national parks until the National Park Service was established in 1916....

Public comment period opens for NOAA’s proposed rule to protect marine mammals in international fisheries....

Hawai‘i State Wildlife Action Plan lays out the strategy and plans of DLNR and its partners to address the conservation needs of Hawai‘i’s native wildlife over the next 10 years....

Once again, the anti-TMT, anti-GMO, anti-everything folks are going to protest....

Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be heard by the Honorable Joseph E. Cardoza, Judge of the Environmental Court of the Second Circuit on September 16, 2015 at 9:30 a.m....

All low-carbon electricity generation technologies, including renewables, energy efficiency, natural gas, nuclear and carbon capture and storage, can play a role in state plans....

Complete video of Moanalua Bay Town Hall meeting ....

"This is one of the largest settlements for an environmental violation in Hawaii’s history,” said Chin....

...I believe the SSMA is written in a rather one-sided manner....

...the state’s redemption rate decreased from 72.6 percent in fiscal year 2014 to 68.4 percent in the last fiscal year, which ended in June 2015....

...the transported soil was contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, barium, cadmium, lead, and mercury....

...the cover of Time magazine foretold of a "world without bees"....

Monday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Pagoda Hotel’s International Ballroom....

...NEXT MEETING: Monday, July 20, 2015--NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council is being held from 9am-5pm at the Pagoda Hotel and is open to the public....

As part of the Interior Department’s leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Outside initiative to engage the next generation of outdoor stewards....

...electric vehicles generate a negative environmental benefit of about -0.5 cents per mile relative to comparable gasoline vehicles....

Hawaii’s new Environmental Court will have broad jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases affecting the environment....

Public hearings will be held in American Samoa, CNMI and Guam on July 6, 13 and 15, respectively....

...it is OK that their plan would gut the tourism industry because it would also drive Hawaii's cost of living up to the point where residents could no longer afford to leave....

... two draft replies--one labeled "the truth" and the other labeled "option 2" ....