Environment

... a global warming “apocalypse” that will flood coastal cities, tear up roads and bridges with mega-storms and bring widespread famine and misery to much of the world ....

...Plan to kill 41 Nene and 48 bats....

...It is time to bring more jobs and economic freedom to the West....

...Kidney failure, blood clots, cardiac arrest, inflammation of the pancreas, leaking intestines....

...in the early 1900s Ahi, Aku, Marlin and other pelagic fish, were reported in the commercial reef fish data. Then they separated the pelagic and reef fish. This alone accounted most of the 90% decline....

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...“Congress never intended to give one individual the power to unilaterally seize enormous swathes of our nation’s public lands…."

...The Supreme Court Ruling will have far reaching impacts on all ocean permits issued by DLNR....

...Recently, the Honolulu City Council approved on first reading Bill 80 (2017), which would award a real property tax exemption to “ocean-friendly restaurants.”...

... cost-benefit comparison of recycling selected materials versus incinerating them at H-POWER ....

...DLNR continues to believe that existing aquarium fishing practices are sustainable and environmentally sound....

...A much bigger body of ice was identified in a neighboring cinder cone crater, Pu'uhaukea....

...Flashback: Rumors and Rage: When Good Conservation Sounds Bad....

...Wednesday’s lawsuit says there were 14,645 commercial air tours conducted over the Hawaii Volcanoes alone....

...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....

...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....

...Honolulu has seen an average sea-level rise of only 5.6 inches since 1900....

...StarKist will pay a $6.3 million penalty and provide emergency response equipment to the American Samoa Department of Public Safety, Fire Services Bureau....

...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....

...The Kauai Garden Isle's inflammatory headline shouted “POISON DROPPED” in inch-high letters....

...HECO has acknowledged rates could rise by more than 44 percent when PSIP is fully implemented....

...but it helps generate more 'sea level rise' photos....

...The Court ruled the State holds an easement over the seawalls and is not liable for attorneys’ fees....

...Presidents Bush and Obama mocked the Antiquities Act’s limitation that monuments can only be designated on federal ‘land’ by designating huge ocean monuments....

...HDOT recently expended hundreds of millions of dollars to install energy efficient lighting improvements at the State airports and commercial harbors....

...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....

...Believe this?  Got Hawaii oceanfront real estate? I will buy it off you for 10% of assessed value cash money....

...a proposed Hawaii wind farm admits it will be lethal and seeks government permission to commence the killing....

...Preliminary Draft of Proposed Revisions to Hawaiʻi Administrative Rules Title 11 Department of Health Chapter 200 Environmental Impact Statement Rules....

...Underwater: State’s Costs of Hawai‘i Superferry....

...On June 6, the Governor of Hawaii signed two bills that his office described as supporting the Paris Agreement....

...A three day operation last week resulted in additional arrests and the dismantling of large, illegal camps in Kalalau Valley....

The Hawaii Aquarium fishery was proven sustainable by a 17 year study of the fishery....

“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” 

The noise generated by wind turbines affected the sonar that whales use to navigate, causing them to beach themselves....

...A Scientist Didn’t Disclose Important Data—and Let Everyone Believe a Popular Weedkiller Causes Cancer....

...According to Nature and Scientific American, claims of coral damage from sunscreen are a bunch of hype....

“Our study shows...it takes very little warming for conditions to turn deadly in the tropics.”

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....

...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....

...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....

The law is set to go into effect on Dec. 31, 2018....

...More sweetheart contracts to buy overpriced electricity from campaign contributors....

...policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures....

...Hawaii Legislators pledge to Keep Shoveling Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires like Elon Musk....

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....

...Does anybody really believe that 90% of the public has even heard of the aquarium fisheries issue--much less have an opinion on it?

The DOI allegedly removed from this sentence: “Global climate change drives sea-level rise, increasing the frequency of coastal flooding.”

...UH plans King Tides “citizen science” project -- submitting photos online....

“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 ….