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Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
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Chemical Company Behind Anti-Sunscreen Campaign
By Andrew Walden @ 12:58 AM :: 7328 Views :: Environment, Greenmail
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... BASF has been trying to break in to the US sunscreen market for nearly 20 years. They have been blocked by protectionist FDA stalling ....
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Monday, March 8, 2021 |
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Cannabis Production on Oahu -- Dirtiest in the USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:57 PM :: 4338 Views :: Energy, Environment, Drugs
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... eastern O'ahu has the highest emissions, at 324 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per ounce. That’s roughly equivalent to burning 16 gallons of gasoline....
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Friday, March 5, 2021 |
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Seven Cesspools: EPA Fines DLNR (again)
By News Release @ 3:21 PM :: 3042 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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... Four prior EPA enforcement actions against Hawai‘i DLNR have closed 74 cesspools, collected $407,400 in fines ....
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Saturday, February 13, 2021 |
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Federal Judge Sends Maui County 'big oil' lawsuit to State Court--Will SCOTUS Intervene?
By News Release @ 12:50 AM :: 5379 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... Federal District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson ruled in County of Maui v. Chevron that the federal court does not have jurisdiction over the case and remanded the action back to state court ....
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021 |
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HB1316: Hawaii Democrats Open New Front in War on Plastic
By News Release @ 3:07 PM :: 3050 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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"...a coordinated effort to hold producers responsible for the end-of-life management of plastic packaging...."
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Sunday, January 31, 2021 |
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Kawailoa Windfarm: Island Insurance Pays $250K to Kill Bats
By News Release @ 1:15 AM :: 4508 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Greenmail
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... due to the unexpectedly higher take of `ōpe`ape`a (bat) at the project and discovery of two `ua`u (petrel) fatalities ....
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Friday, January 29, 2021 |
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DLNR Hires Helicopters to Exterminate Sheep on Mauna Kea
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 4006 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Second Amendment
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... Control work is scheduled for February 17 and 18. Public access to affected areas and the Mauna Kea Hunter Access Road will be restricted ....
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 |
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'Climate Denialism' -- Hirono Pressures Inspector General to Investigate Trump Officials
By News Release @ 4:16 AM :: 3667 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, First Amendment
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"... Commerce IG to Review Hirono-led Request to Investigate Climate Denialism Propaganda Pushed by Trump Appointees at NOAA ...."
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Friday, January 22, 2021 |
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Money to Burn: Virtual Community Meetings Planned for New Aloha Stadium Boondoggle
By News Release @ 1:19 AM :: 4538 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Rail, Tourism
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... The public comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District (NASED) project concludes on Feb. 8 ....
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Saturday, January 16, 2021 |
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Land Grab: Enviros Sue to Restore 'Critical' Habitat Rules
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 2645 Views :: Environment
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... 2012: 'Critical habitat': Feds Seize Control of 67 square miles on Oahu; Maui Next ....
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Thursday, January 14, 2021 |
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Court Order: All commercial aquarium fishing completely banned in Hawaii
By News Release @ 11:56 AM :: 4118 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism
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... until the aquarium fishing industry has completed the Chapter 343 environmental review process ....
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Monday, January 11, 2021 |
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Supreme Court to hear Guam, Alaska Cases
By Court House News @ 12:11 PM :: 3865 Views :: Environment, Judiciary, COVID-19
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... The U.S. Supreme Court granted 14 cases Friday night, adding an additional 12 hours of argument to its calendar ....
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Monday, January 4, 2021 |
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The greenies’ tales about Hawaii’s vanishing beaches miss one important fact
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 4016 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...I don’t have an opinion about sea walls. I do have an opinion about connected, rich people buying oceanfront property on sinking islands even as they try to sell us on the idea that an ocean rise clocked at less than 2 mm per year is what really matters – and that we should give up fossil fuel to save their beaches....
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Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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Hawaii Officials Promise Changes to Seawall Policies
By Selected News Articles @ 6:09 PM :: 3330 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... Officials now pledge action, after a Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica investigation ....
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Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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City and County of Honolulu releases inaugural Climate Action Plan
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 4140 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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... required step to uphold the Paris climate agreement ....
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Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: PUC Approves New Battery Incentive Scheme for HECO
By News Release @ 9:07 PM :: 4267 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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... Ratepayer money will be shoveled to Elon Musk to buy batteries ....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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Aloha Stadium Draft EIS Released
By News Release @ 11:50 PM :: 4213 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development
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...The DEIS has been posted online and public comments are encouraged....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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Caldwell signs key climate bills and releases 2020 City Sustainability Report
By News Release @ 11:36 PM :: 3708 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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..."Biden has stated he’s going to focus on economic recovery and climate change, and these bills ensure we’re ready to partner on day one”....
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Sunday, December 20, 2020 |
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Will Courts Stop Presidents From Calling Oceans ‘National Monuments’?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:32 AM :: 2557 Views :: Environment
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...The case involves the Antiquities Act of 1906, which allows the president to proclaim landmarks and structures with historic and scientific interest as national monuments....
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Friday, December 18, 2020 |
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Big Brother Is Watching: Satellites Used to Survey Fishing in High Seas
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 3355 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... Rounding out the top ten of most active companies were a series of Chinese corporations and one U.S. corporation based out of Hawaii. Two other key figures in the top ten list were Sajo Group and Dongwon, two Korean companies that own the United States subsidiary Starkist ....
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020 |
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Thursday, November 19, 2020 |
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Oceanfront Property Tied to Obama Granted Exemption From Hawaii’s Environmental Laws
By Selected News Articles @ 9:22 PM :: 7588 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Obama
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...Environmental laws are for the little people, not the environmentalists....
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Thursday, November 5, 2020 |
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DLNR Steps Up Efforts to Manage Homelessness Across Public Lands
By Selected News Articles @ 9:20 PM :: 4217 Views :: Environment, Homelessness, Land Use
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...“I don’t see any end in sight, really, because it just seems to have gotten worse"....
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 |
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How to diversify Hawaii's economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:35 PM :: 4057 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Tourism
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“...If all of us had to go back and work in the agricultural sector, we’re not as productive in that, and we would lose income....”
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Monday, October 12, 2020 |
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Lemming News: Maui County Jumps on 'Sue Big Oil' Bandwagon
By News Release @ 6:57 PM :: 3892 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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...every court to reach the substance of the allegations has dismissed them—including the U.S. Supreme Court....
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Friday, October 9, 2020 |
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Caldwell: Global Warming causing Rain Bombs
By News Release @ 1:03 AM :: 3086 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...City initiates “Climate Ready O‘ahu” adaptation strategy; welcomes resident participation and engagement via on-line tools launched today....
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 |
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Navy Issues Red Hill Remediation Contracts
By News Release @ 2:18 AM :: 3753 Views :: Environment, Military
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...to adapt an existing commercial membrane technology for upgrading fuel storage tanks at Red Hill....
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Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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Atrazine to Be Banned in Hawaii, Territories
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 3725 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...in the wake of a legal agreement between the EPA and the Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America....
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Saturday, September 19, 2020 |
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Ninth Circuit Upholds Planned Pentagon Buildup on Guam
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 3084 Views :: Environment, Military
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... A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday affirmed a federal judge’s finding that the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense properly assessed the environmental impact ....
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Friday, September 11, 2020 |
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The New Champion Of Private Property Rights Is … Barack Obama?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 AM :: 6400 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Land Use, Obama
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...Obama and his longtime colleague Marty Nesbitt want a 100-year-old sea wall rebuilt and fortified to protect a planned Hawaii retreat....
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Saturday, September 5, 2020 |
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Moving the Smokestack: How Clean is Your Electric Vehicle?
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 5529 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...in Honolulu, the 2016 Porsche Cayenne S e-Hybrid is only 2mpg better than the vehicular embodiment of excess--the 2010 Hummer H3....
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Saturday, September 5, 2020 |
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Army Announces Intent to Prepare EIS for Pohakuloa
By News Release @ 7:01 AM :: 3922 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Military
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...environmental impact statement to analyze its proposal to retain up to approximately 23,000 acres of state-owned land at Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA) to support continued military training....
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Saturday, August 29, 2020 |
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Enviros: Haunama Bay Better Off When We Kick the Little People Out
By News Release @ 10:52 PM :: 4424 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, COVID-19
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...Since the March 18 closure in response to the pandemic, only researchers and staff have left foot prints on the shoreline of the nature preserve....
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Saturday, August 15, 2020 |
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Hawaiian Burials Dug up to Make Way for Obama’s Oceanfront Septic Tank
By Selected News Articles @ 4:04 PM :: 6810 Views :: Environment, Politicians
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...Eco-Hypocrisy: How Obama Got a Legal Seawall for Another 55 Years....
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Friday, July 17, 2020 |
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EPA: Waters Around Two Hawaii Beaches Impaired by Plastic Pollution
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 3598 Views :: Environment, Greenmail
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...Next Step: Federally-mandated state-funded beachcombing as an act of pennance in the eco-religion....
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 |
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City Announces Progress on Sewage System Consent Decree
By News Release @ 7:09 PM :: 4252 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...In 2010, the city estimated that it would spend $3.4 billion in capital costs through fiscal year 2020....
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 |
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Saving coral reef fisheries with management areas
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 3050 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...setting aside some areas where fishing is prohibited....
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 |
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EPA orders the closure of 16 cesspools on Kauai
By News Release @ 4:32 AM :: 3319 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...EPA has taken enforcement actions in Kauai to close 16 pollution-causing large capacity cesspools and collect $55,182 in penalties....
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Saturday, May 30, 2020 |
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Case, Gabbard Pursue First National Forest for Hawai’i
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 4218 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Congressional Delegation
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...Their legislation follows their recent initiative to create Hawaii’s first National Heritage Area at Ka’ena Point....
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Saturday, May 23, 2020 |
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BLNR Rejects Aquarium Fishing EIS
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 4164 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Small Business
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...The over 2000-page EIS had been produced by a group of ten West Hawaiʻi aquarium fishers and the National Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, on their proposal to ask the DLNR to issue permits to the ten aquarium fishers....
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 |
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List of State Parks Reopening
By News Release @ 5:16 PM :: 3377 Views :: Environment, COVID-19
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"...as long as people are moving past each other, even if they’re within 6 ft of each other and not wearing a mask, we wouldn’t categorize those persons as anything but low risk at most and likely no risk...." -- State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park
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Monday, April 27, 2020 |
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Lahaina Injection Wells: Ad hoc rules and non-exhaustive lists of "factors"
By Robert Thomas @ 3:57 AM :: 3757 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...the usual result is going to be that you run a big risk if you don't get a permit....
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
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Planet of the Humans: Michael Moore Debunks Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative
By Video @ 1:51 PM :: 5385 Views :: Energy, Environment, First Amendment
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"...No amount of batteries are going to save us, warns director Jeff Gibbs...."
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
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Maui Injection Wells: Supreme Court Overturns 9th Circuit, Creates New Test
By Court House News @ 1:30 PM :: 3818 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...a 6-3 majority found that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling went too far. At the same time, however, the court declined to adopt the reading of the law advanced by the county....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
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Hawaii Air Quality Cleanest in the Nation
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 3328 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...Honolulu City and County set record levels for low amounts of annual particle pollution....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020 |
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Global Warmers Feeling Forgotten: Civil Beat Agrees to Help
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 3183 Views :: Environment, COVID-19
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...Do you remember to panic? Media will try to remind you....
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