Environment

...HB 2569 (Act 176) which aims to expedite the goals of the Department of Education to cool Hawai‘i’s schools, reduce energy costs, meet Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals....

...in a June 16 letter, Case said she was not extending Friel's employment past his six-month probation period....

...Last week, researchers discovered the bodies of six endangered Hawaiian Petrels at a remote breeding colony in Hono o Na Pali Natural Area Reserve, Kauai....

...aerial shooting from helicopters of feral goats, feral sheep, mouflon and mouflon/feral sheep hybrids....

... big oil is funding these ocean closures worldwide ....

The focus away from pesticides as the primary driver runs counter to the narrative shaped over the past few years by high profile advocacy groups....

Recent news making events have detracted from the great strides in the management of Maunakea....

The findings of the Draft EIS demonstrate that Hawaii Dairy Farms will be protective of the environment and serve as a model for sustainable agriculture in the Islands.....

... CLUE: Because Oahu is on an extinct volcano, the island is rising faster than the wildest projections of sea-level rise.  Al Gore just can't keep up with Madame Pele .... 

"...the consequences to landowners even for inadvertent violation can be crushing...."

Petition the President of the United States to Not expand the outer boundary of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Moument from 50 nautical miles out to 200 nautical miles....

...contested case hearings before the commissions on Water Resource Management, Land Use, Public Utilities, the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority and cases involving conservation districts, to be directly appealed to the Hawai‘i Supreme Court....

For decades, hippies seeking paradise have polluted the Napali Coast.  Now DLNR goes in to clean up their mess ....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

"...only four cities—Burlington-South Burlington, Vt.; Elmira-Corning, N.Y.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Salinas, Calif.—qualified for the 'cleanest cities' list in the "State of the Air' report...."

... HB2501 Conference Committee meets today at 2pm, do the math ....

…The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology occupies its own tiny island in Kaneohe Bay, known as Moku o Lo‘e....

...the Kaho‘olawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund will be depleted by FY2018....

...not only are thicker bags around, I’ve got a stock pile of paper bags now....

Here's what we are reading today....

The Hawaii State Supreme Court, in a 4-1 ruling this morning, has decided to allow Castle and Cooke to go ahead with its planned Koa Ridge development in Mililani....

"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected 157,000 acres of critical habitat for 125 species of plants and animals from the Hawaiian islands of Molokai, Maui and Kahoolawe....

...by 2028, every car sold in the state would have to be electric or hydrogen cell powered....

...the state's plan to eliminate all ground transportation that uses fossil fuels....

Ige has signed new Wastewater System rules that would ban new cesspools statewide....

American Samoa says the U.S. government violated its sovereign rights by shrinking the zone around the territory....

At one end of the spectrum, fully 71% of those who live in the District of Columbia, 70% of those in Vermont and 68% of those in Hawaii said stricter environmental regulations are worth the cost....

...extreme weather events can wash out portion of coastal highways.  This has happened several times on Oahu....

The emergency proclamation will give the state access to the Major Disaster Fund, the option of waiving certain laws and regulations to expedite the outbreak response....

...meanwhile Obama is seeking $1.8B in Zika funding....

...tons of junk flown from the camps by expensive helicopters will be stored for 30 days and unless rightful owners reclaim their items, they will be discarded....

...the USNS Puerto Rico is the ship being considered by Bay Ferries....

Applications for a vacant position on the State Commission on Water Resource Management are now being accepted for a new term that will begin July 1....

"...the Sanctuary will not have an expanded purpose...."

February 10 and 11, and May, 4 and 5, 2016....

Water flow and sediment monitoring on coral reefs off the island of Lāna‘i provides conservation projects with guide for Ridge-to-Reef Management....

Last year we were 42nd ....

Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs....

Full Transcript of Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) Floor Speech January 5, 2016....

If you want a crash course in Hawaii's unique (some would say weird) water law, you can't do better than this video....

"Public-Private partnerships are really hard."

...“We are happy" -- Burning Anti-Cane Activists ....

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration volunteers, who shot the video, called police and told them he was "sitting next to the seal and possibly was harassing the seal,"....

Justices ruled 4-1 that the Hoopili development can proceed....

NASA has published a study in the Journal of Glaciology showing that overall Antarctic ice increased by 112 billion tons per year....

"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....