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Thursday, July 31, 2025 |
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Public Safety Power Shutoff watch: Hawaiian Electric monitoring wildfire risk conditions
By News Release @ 6:16 PM :: 243 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... if weather conditions intensify in the next 24 to 48 hours Hawaiian Electric may proactively shut off power in communities with high exposure to wildfire risk ....
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
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UPDATE: DoT Extends Public Comment Period on Teenagers' Climate Plan
By News Release @ 7:50 PM :: 960 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics
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“...This isn’t just a policy document. These proposals will have real and lasting impacts on families, kūpuna, workers, and businesses across Hawai‘i...”
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Thursday, July 24, 2025 |
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Energy companies seek dismissal in Hawaii climate lawfare case
By Selected News Articles @ 10:35 PM :: 585 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment, Higher Education, Judiciary
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... Energy companies being sued by the city of Honolulu over climate change accusations have motioned for summary judgment, stating that Hawaii’s two-year statute of limitations makes the plaintiffs’ case unsubstantial ....
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Monday, July 21, 2025 |
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Hawaii's Only Oil Refinery Inks $100M 'Renewable' Fuels Deal
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 927 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Par Pacific, Mitsubishi, and ENEOS to Establish Joint Venture for Renewable Fuels in Hawaii ....
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 |
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Hawaii climate policy going overboard on cruise ships
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:24 PM :: 965 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... the DOT is supposed to decarbonize every transportation sector in Hawaii, but there aren’t a lot of options when it comes to maritime emissions ....
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Settlement will Impose ‘Big Expense’ on Your ‘fuel, groceries, and airfare’
By News Release @ 4:38 AM :: 1470 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... The biggest and costliest piece of the plan is establishing clean fuel requirements for all types of transportation vehicles, including cars, passenger jets and cargo ships ....
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025 |
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Red Hill: BWS Sues Navy for $1.2B
By News Release @ 1:20 AM :: 740 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... BWS past, ongoing, and future restoration, remediation and mitigation efforts are currently estimated to total approximately $1.2 billion ....
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025 |
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HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 649 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Persistent drought conditions, Wind gusts 45 mph and higher, and Relative humidity below 45% ....
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Sunday, June 29, 2025 |
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Twenty Years of Nickels
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1313 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Taxes
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... the fund has swollen to over $50 million ....
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Saturday, June 28, 2025 |
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No Surprise: BLNR Rejects Another Army EIS
By News Release @ 1:15 PM :: 862 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii State Government, Military
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... this is a negotiating position for the master lease renewals ....
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Thursday, June 26, 2025 |
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OHA Withdraws Maunakea Litigation
By News Release @ 10:42 PM :: 1002 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Higher Education, OHA
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... Klein Quit as OHA’s Maunakea Lawyer Six Months Ago ....
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Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Barking Sands Land Leases Set to Expire 2027-30
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 788 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Military
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... U.S. Navy and NASA release Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed, continued use of state lands on Kauai ....
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Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 11:58 PM :: 706 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... A federal judge is deciding whether the U.S. Navy should be held liable for 543 Clean Water Act violations at its Red Hill fuel facility ....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025 |
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UH: Feds Cut Funding for Sea Level Hysteria
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 970 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Land Use
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... If we can't make this stuff up, how can legislators and councilmembers use it as an excuse for their pre-conceived agendas? ....
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Sunday, June 1, 2025 |
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Twenty Years of Hawaii Recycling Fraud
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:54 PM :: 1560 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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"We found that DOH still has made no progress on implementing the prior recommendations, including those codified by the Legislature in Section 342G-121.5, HRS."
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Saturday, May 31, 2025 |
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Trump’s Plan to Land SpaceX Rockets on Johnston Atoll Naturally Spurs Eco-Lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:43 PM :: 757 Views :: Environment, Military
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... This project is part of an Air Force program called Rocket Cargo Vanguard intended to experiment with the use of commercial rockets for military logistics and materiel transport ....
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 |
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Can the Trump Administration save Honolulu from wasting $2.5B on Sand Island Sewage Plant?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:13 PM :: 1185 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Taxes
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... The cost of the Sand Island upgrade aligns with the Council’s dispute with the Blangiardi administration over the amount of sewer fee increases to be forced upon Oahu ratepayers ....
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 |
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Lawyer Outlines Cruise Industry Case Against Green Fee
By News Release @ 4:03 AM :: 1005 Views :: Environment, Jones Act, Taxes, Tourism
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... tax "may have invited a legal storm" ....
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025 |
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SB1396 Green Fee: Green Signs TAT Increase, Promises to Waste it all on Global Warming
By News Release @ 10:14 PM :: 1023 Views :: Environment, Jones Act, Taxes, Tourism
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... Senate Bill 1396 increases the TAT rate by 0.75% beginning in 2026 and levies, for the first time, the TAT on cruise ships that port in the state ....
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Friday, May 23, 2025 |
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Hawaii: A far-left state trying to hijack U.S. energy policy
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 AM :: 1466 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics, Judiciary
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... Hawaii is at the vanguard of a coordinated legal campaign that aims to enact Green New Deal-type policies by lawsuit. And by all appearances, the state’s judiciary is an eager participant ....
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Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Challenges Reopening of Pacific Monument
By News Release @ 6:37 PM :: 773 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... The groups are challenging President Trump’s April 17 proclamation that would allow U.S.-flagged vessels to fish commercially ....
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 |
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House Passes South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act
By News Release @ 9:11 PM :: 1385 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Small Business
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... The bipartisan legislation provides congressional direction to fully implement the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which has been diplomatically negotiated among the U.S. and 16 Pacific Islands nations ....
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Saturday, May 10, 2025 |
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BLNR Rejects Army Pohakuloa EIS
By News Release @ 1:06 AM :: 1355 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Military
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... The Army’s current lease for 23,000 acres of state-owned land at PTA is set to expire in 2029 ....
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Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Campaign Contributions: Hawaii Climate Change Lawsuit Skips State's Only Refinery
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 PM :: 1335 Views :: Democratic Party, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Politicians
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"...While Democrats posture about taking on 'Big Oil,' they’re shielding Par Hawaii—a top fossil fuel donor to their own party—from climate lawsuits...."
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025 |
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US Navy liable for fuel leak that sickened military families in Hawaii
By Court House News @ 11:03 PM :: 1249 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... In the long-awaited preliminary decision, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi awarded 17 plaintiffs damages ....
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Monday, May 5, 2025 |
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SB1396: Parts of Green Fee are Already Doomed in Court
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM :: 1527 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Tourism
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"Federal courts (including the Supreme Court) have consistently ruled for over a century that fees or taxes imposed on vessels by non-federal entities are prohibited."
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Friday, May 2, 2025 |
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Complete Debunk: Hawaii AG Files Climate Change Lawsuit in State Court
By News Release @ 12:47 AM :: 3889 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"... The federal lawsuit filed by the Justice Department attempts to block Hawaiʻi from holding the fossil fuel industry responsible ....”
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Thursday, May 1, 2025 |
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Trump Admin Sues to Block Hawaii from Taking Fossil Fuel Companies To Court Over Climate Change
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 1298 Views :: Energy, Environment, Judiciary
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... Hawaii's anticipated lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry interferes with U.S. policy on greenhouse gas regulation and is an “extraordinary extraterritorial reach” ....
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 |
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SCR198: Screwed out of Subrogation, Insurers Urged to Serve Legislature's Agenda by Suing Big Oil
By Andrew Walden @ 1:33 PM :: 1567 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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"...We kicked your butt and took your subrogation money. Now you work for us and serve our agenda by wasting your time on yet another bogus climate change lawsuit filed by Sher-Edling, of course...."
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 |
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Crichton: Environmentalism is a religion
By Selected News Articles @ 12:02 AM :: 149208 Views :: Environment, Religion
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There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge....
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 |
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Ira Einhorn, Earth Day's Dirty Secret
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 81769 Views :: Environment
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Ira Einhorn, Master of Ceremonies, Earth Day Rally on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, Phila, PA, Apr. 22, 1970.
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Friday, April 18, 2025 |
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SB1166: Hawaii Democrats Cooking Up Another Climate Lawfare Scheme
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 PM :: 1757 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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“...provide a new, specific cause of action...."
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Friday, April 18, 2025 |
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Trump Re-Opens Fisheries within Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 1781 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... The proclamation lifts the prohibition on commercial fishing in areas of the PRIMNM that are between 50 to 200 nautical miles from land and within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) ....
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 |
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Hawaii Coral Reef Insurance Policy Renewed
By News Release @ 11:01 PM :: 1323 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... The Nature Conservancy (TNC) renewed Hawai‘i’s coral reef insurance policy for 2025 with Munich Re Group. TNC initially purchased the policy in 2022, the first in the U.S., to fund rapid coral reef repair and restoration ....
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025 |
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Court backs mosquito suppression plan to save Hawaii’s rare birds
By Court House News @ 4:02 AM :: 1203 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... mosquito “birth control” in Maui forests ....
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Monday, April 14, 2025 |
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Community input is sought to guide state wildlife action plan
By News Release @ 2:33 PM :: 1076 Views :: Environment
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... Updated every 10 years, the SWAP identifies “Species of Greatest Conservation Need” and outlines voluntary, proactive strategies for protection and restoration ....
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 |
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Hawaii County Honokohau Sewage 'Sue-n-Settle'
By News Release @ 4:19 PM :: 1213 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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... The settlement resolves a Clean Water Act lawsuit filed in 2023 by Earthjustice ....
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Monday, March 31, 2025 |
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Goats and Sheep are best Way to Control Wildfire Fuel Load--DLNR Shoots them dead
By News Release @ 9:20 PM :: 1052 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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... While wildfire threatens Hawaii's communities, DLNR pays for helicopter-borne extermination operations ....
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Monday, March 24, 2025 |
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Maui judge rules Haleakala trail must be open to public access
By Court House News @ 10:53 AM :: 1477 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Land Use, Tourism
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... The state must now open the historic Haleakala Trail for public access, putting an end to a decade-long fight for it to be declared a public right of way ....
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025 |
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Surfing the environmental permitting bureaucracy in Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 1381 Views :: Environment, Development, Land Use
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... promising policies, such as those mentioned in a new CEI report, may signal Hawaii is headed in a new direction in regulating its permitting system ....
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Monday, March 17, 2025 |
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Caldwell's Duckbill Helps Global Warmers Exploit Mapunapuna Flooding
By News Release @ 9:06 PM :: 1244 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... These floods are 100 year old news. Flooding was recently made worse by a Caldwell Admin decision to install a duckbill valve on the outlet pipe ....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
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Indictment: Alleged Embezzler Busted at Hawaii Eco Group
By News Release @ 2:30 AM :: 1604 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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... While employed with the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, Bjur allegedly issued herself $81,000 ....
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 |
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Releasing Mosquitoes to Help Kauai Forest Birds
By News Release @ 12:33 AM :: 1107 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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... first release of sterile male mosquitoes into a state forest reserve on the vast Alakaʻi Plateau ....
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Saturday, February 1, 2025 |
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Proposed "green fee" a reason for red flag
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:57 PM :: 1420 Views :: Environment, Taxes, Tourism
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... Few ideas are as tenacious as the myth that we can make tourists pay for major programs without affecting locals ....
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Sunday, January 26, 2025 |
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Those Nickels Add Up!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 1488 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... ripe for raiding ....
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Thursday, January 23, 2025 |
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Navy can’t dodge Clean Water Act claims over Honolulu fuel storage facility
By Court House News @ 2:02 PM :: 1072 Views :: Environment, Military
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... Senior U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi in Honolulu on Wednesday denied the Navy's request to dismiss the claims brought by Wai Ola Alliance, an environmental advocacy organization ....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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Trump Orders Temporary Withdrawal of Offshore Areas from Wind Leasing
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 1228 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... temporary withdrawal of all areas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from wind energy leasing ....
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Monday, January 13, 2025 |
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HECO Unveils Expanded Wildfire Safety Strategy
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 1562 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... 3-year plan focuses initial work on high-risk areas ....
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