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Friday, May 15, 2015 |
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Enviros Challenge Deep-Sea Mining Licenses
By Selected News Articles @ 10:29 AM :: 5539 Views :: Environment, National News
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The Center for Biological Diversity brought the May 13 lawsuit in Washington, D.C., over five-year extensions that regulators granted Lockheed Martin for two exploration licenses it holds for a metal-rich zone of the Pacific Ocean....
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Thursday, May 14, 2015 |
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Wind and Solar Facilities Face No Consequences for Killing Millions of Birds
By NCPA @ 2:36 PM :: 5397 Views :: Energy, Environment
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On December 9, 2013, the Obama Administration finalized a regulation allowing wind energy companies to obtain 30-year permits to kill eagles....
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Thursday, May 7, 2015 |
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Kilauea Largest Source of SO2 Pollution in USA
By UHERO @ 2:19 AM :: 7211 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Using Vog from Kilauea to Estimate the Health Consequences of Particulate and SO2 Pollution....
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Sunday, May 3, 2015 |
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NextEra: Legalized Tax Fraud
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 7026 Views :: Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...Total federal income tax breaks from 2008 through 2012: $4.2 billion....
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
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Turtle Bay Deal Announced
By News Release @ 9:57 PM :: 8661 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Tourism
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“The proposed bill will give the state the beach front property around Kawela Bay in fee simple for $35 million...."
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
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End the Bleeding of Aloha By Hobby Activism
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:36 PM :: 9584 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, OHA, GMOs
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...when people can resort to this kind of behavior, it really shows that they are not capable of considering the consequences of their actions....
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
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Tuna Monument: Rep Aumua Amata to Oversee Investigations of 'Insular Areas'
By News Release @ 3:50 PM :: 5721 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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NOAA is often influenced by the large environmental lobbies that have no personal stake in the region....
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
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Hazardous Waste: DHHL Sues Evicted Racetrack Operator
By News Release @ 4:00 AM :: 5820 Views :: DHHL, Environment
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DHHL is pursuing claims for damages against SORT, which includes but is not limited to the cost to clean-up and remediate the property, in an action currently pending in the First Circuit Court....
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
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NOAA Uses Hawaii Reefs to 'Showcase Climate Resilience'
By News Release @ 3:21 AM :: 3921 Views :: Environment
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...projects will take place in West Hawai‘i, West Maui, and He’eia (O’ahu)....
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
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Governor Ige to Sign Bill Designating the Hawaiian Hoary Bat As State Land Mammal
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 5:26 AM :: 6161 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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...the ōpe‘ape‘a, or Hawaiian hoary bat, flew through the Senate, glided through the House of Representatives, and will land on Governor Ige's desk in the attic of the Capitol Building....
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Monday, April 20, 2015 |
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New Laws Regulate Aquarium Fishermen
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 5560 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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The aquarium fishermen even at loss of income have willingly agreed to the new laws and plan to have continuing dialogue with DAR....
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Monday, April 20, 2015 |
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NOAA: Hawaii Humpbacks 'Not at Risk'
By News Release @ 3:59 PM :: 5418 Views :: Environment
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The humpback whale is currently listed as endangered throughout its range. The proposed rule finds that ten of those 14 populations do not warrant ESA listing....
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 |
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Lawsuit Challenges HC&S East Maui Water Diversions
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 23844 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, OHA
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A&B has been diverting water from East Maui streams for more than 100 years via "complex system of ditches, tunnels and flumes" to irrigate the HC&S sugar plantation in Central Maui....
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
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Auditor: Fraud-riddled HI5 Program Ripped off by Whole Foods Market for 6 Years
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 11:27 PM :: 5968 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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...the DBC Program paid $2.6 million in deposit refunds for approximately 3.5 million pounds of recycled materials that cannot be accounted for....
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
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Incense and Candles Can Pollute
By Jack Dini @ 1:06 AM :: 5265 Views :: Environment
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Smoke produced by burning incense and candles can be worse than the pollution found next to a busy road....
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Monday, April 13, 2015 |
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Fences and Eradication: Petition Calls for Rejection of Suzanne Case
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 5791 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment
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With Suzanne Case being the Chairperson of DLNR there will be no animals to harvest because of fences and eradication....
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Saturday, April 11, 2015 |
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Suzanne Case Pays for Aerial Shooting and Eradication: Can Hunters Trust Her?
By Dr Maxwell Cooper @ 1:54 PM :: 6314 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment
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The Nature Conservancy uses aerial shooting of ungulates, fencing and eradication, and supports eliminating non-native animal populations....
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 |
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Ige Nominates Suzanne Case to DLNR, Names Three to School Board
By News Release @ 5:58 PM :: 6621 Views :: Education K-12, Environment, Hawaii State Government
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Suzanne Case is a 28-year veteran of The Nature Conservancy and has served as its executive director since 2001....
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Sunday, April 5, 2015 |
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The Turtle Bay Bill, Part 2
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 8193 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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...They were under the impression that the bond sale process needed to begin by June 30 of this year. “No,” said the Department of Attorney General, “the law says that the bond sale needs to be DONE by June 30.”...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 |
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SCR181: Interisland Ferry System Study
By Michael Hansen @ 10:16 PM :: 6616 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Jones Act
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There are several State regulatory issues that need to be resolved prior to attempting to establish a Hawaii interisland ferry and are at least as important as the technical modeling, facilities and feasibility considerations....
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 |
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MIT: Scientific illiteracy in left-wing politics
By Selected News Articles @ 4:14 AM :: 8304 Views :: Energy, Environment, GMOs
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...in blue states like Vermont, Oregon, Maine, Hawaii, and Washington....
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Friday, March 27, 2015 |
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Feds Grab for Control of 1,601 square miles of Hawaii Waters
By News Release @ 6:39 PM :: 4693 Views :: Environment
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...expanding from a sanctuary that manages only humpback whales to one that manages all natural and cultural resources within its boundaries....
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Friday, March 20, 2015 |
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Am Samoa: Amata Blasts Administration’s “Environmental Colonialism”
By News Release @ 2:31 PM :: 5440 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation
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...Aumua Amata, who serves as the Vice-Chairman of the subcommittee, addressed Esther P. Kia’aina....
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 |
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Hawaii is Not the Hawaii I Knew
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:01 PM :: 7467 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Cost of Living
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...the SHAKA Movement is now going after the sugar cane industry....
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
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California Plastic Bag Ban Suspended as 800,000 Sign Repeal Ballot Petition
By News Release @ 3:53 PM :: 6559 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Taxes
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“SB 270 was never a bill about the environment. It was a backroom deal between the California Grocers Association and their union friends to scam consumers out of billions of dollars in bag fees – all under the guise of environmentalism.”
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Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 |
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Top ‘Scientists’ Caught Adjusting Temperature Readings
By Selected News Articles @ 1:41 PM :: 7079 Views :: Environment, World News
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...‘In the business and trading world, people go to jail for such manipulations of data’….
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 |
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DLNR: Pacific Whale Institute 'Will be Held Accountable' for Grounding Catamaran
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 4540 Views :: Environment
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...This is what happens when anti-Superferry activists are allowed to operate seagoing catamarans....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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DLNR Report Shows Major Increase in Aquarium Fish Populations
By Selected News Articles @ 5:53 PM :: 6268 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Overall Yellow Tang abundance has increased 58% (over 1.3 million fish) from 1999/2000 to 2012-2013 to a current population of 3.6 million fish....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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Hawaii 'Deep Ecology' Activist Joins White Supremacists
By Selected News Articles @ 5:37 PM :: 8526 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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...he eventually became the Sea Shepherd regional director in Hawaii....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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$100M Penalty? Federal Court Again Finds Maui County in Violation of Clean Water Act
By News Release @ 7:42 PM :: 6052 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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Maximum penalties in this case already exceed $100 million, and the meter is ticking at a rate of over $100,000 per day....
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Monday, January 26, 2015 |
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Over 20 Groups Oppose Ige's DNLR Nominee
By News Release @ 5:45 PM :: 6678 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii State Government
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Over twenty environmental groups are asking the Governor to withdraw his nomination of Castle & Cooke lobbyist Carleton Ching to head the Department of Land and Natural Resources and to drop any plans to weaken or eliminate the Land Use Commission....
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
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Richard Epstein to Discuss 'Environmental Deregulation' at UH Richardson Law School
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:02 PM :: 4196 Views :: Environment
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Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 4:30PM William S Richardson School of Law ....
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Friday, January 9, 2015 |
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City Files Lien Against Hawaii Kai Sludge Dumper in Waianae
By News Release @ 12:02 AM :: 5010 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...placing a lien for unpaid civil fines on agricultural property where sludge from the Hawaii Kai Marina was illegally dumped....
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Thursday, January 8, 2015 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court to Review Haleakala Telescope Case
By Robert Thomas @ 9:35 PM :: 8420 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Judiciary, Land Use
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The case thus represents a target-rich environment for the petitioners and the court....
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Friday, January 2, 2015 |
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Auditor: State Policies Create Barrier to Glass Recycling
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:58 PM :: 8328 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...the interaction between the advance disposal fee (ADF) and the deposit beverage container (DBC) programs creates inefficiencies in the recycling or down-cycling of glass....
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Friday, January 2, 2015 |
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Big Wind: NextEra, Sierra Club Team up for Corporate Welfare
By Selected News Articles @ 1:48 PM :: 5467 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...the production tax credit (PTC) gives wind companies 2.3 cents for every kilowatt-hour of electricity they produce....
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014 |
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Auditor: Unclear What Glass Recycling Program is Supposed to Accomplish
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 9:51 PM :: 8412 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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Where the 'Recycled' Glass Goes? -- Busted: Hee Family Tied to Massive Waste Dumping Scheme....
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
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A&B President Elected Chair of Hawaii Nature Conservancy
By News Release @ 9:31 PM :: 9047 Views :: Environment, Development, Greenmail
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Benjamin has served on the Hawaiʻi Board since 2007 and has worked closely with Conservancy staff....
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
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National Academy of Sciences: Electric Cars Make Air Dirtier
By Selected News Articles @ 1:17 PM :: 5186 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...The study examines environmental costs for cars' entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries....
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 |
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Made in China Solar Panels Costly for Planet
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 10:02 PM :: 5976 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“It takes a lot of energy to extract and process solar-grade silicon,” says co-author Seth Darling. “And in China, that energy tends to come from dirtier and less efficient energy sources...."
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014 |
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Kauai Dairy Farm Receives Approval
By News Release @ 8:48 PM :: 7723 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Land Use
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...The original proposal of 2,000 cows on site was modified in July 2014 to 650-699 cows....
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Monday, November 17, 2014 |
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DLNR vs Hawaii County: In Whose Interest?
By Tom Lodge @ 2:43 AM :: 6079 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment
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DLNR sued the County of Hawaii for its ban on aerial hunting....
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Saturday, November 15, 2014 |
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
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China-U.S. “Climate” Accord
By NCPA @ 2:06 PM :: 5710 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...far-reaching energy, trade and security implications....
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Saturday, November 8, 2014 |
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UHERO: LNG Could Save Hawaii Ratepayers $800M/Year
By UHERO @ 8:18 PM :: 7788 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...to estimate the impacts of Hawaii importing LNG for use in the electric sector....
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Friday, October 24, 2014 |
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DLNR Approves Community Management of Haena Fishpond
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 4745 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government
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Near Unanimous Support from Haena Community Results In Historic Decision....
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Thursday, October 23, 2014 |
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20 Million Gallons of Sewage Spill on Sand Island
By Selected News Articles @ 5:31 PM :: 5903 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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City could have worked harder to prevent Sand Island sewage spill....
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
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Matson to pay $1 million for Honolulu molasses spill under plea agreement
By Malia Zimmerman @ 12:35 PM :: 5558 Views :: Environment, Jones Act
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...Matson Terminals Inc has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor violations of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899....
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