Environment

BLNR will consider approval of new state hunting rules for game mammals and game birds on Oct. 24....

San Francisco saw an increase in litter after its bag ban was implemented....

These bills are a first step toward empowering our communities to fight back against illegal dumping....

“Our US Pacific Island fishermen already comply with the strictest regulations in the world.”

...video surveillance cameras watch bats flying at night near wind turbines....

...Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Executive Director Kitty Simonds who was able to broker this meeting....

...The changes will affect more than 77,000 homeowners on the neighbor islands and 11,000 on Oahu....

...Steyer, the former CEO of the Farallon investment firm, made much of his fortune from the coal, oil, and gas industries....

The government was forced to raise the tax after they noticed that bag use was increasing as consumers began absorbing the cost of the bags....

...the first important discussion at the White House was held this week and, while Governor Lolo was represented by a member of his cabinet, Faleomavaega was nowhere to be found....

...The Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment today 'documenting' the hazard that plastic pollution poses to wildlife on Tern Island....

Even over the last 40 years, the Hilo, Kahului, and Lihue regions all show non-significant trends with negative – cooling – correlations....

...[T]he pause [in global warming] has now lasted for 16, 19 or 26 years—depending on whether you choose the surface temperature record or one of two satellite records....

Scuba divers and aquarium fisherman have noted throughout the islands have noticed that there has been major increases in new juvenile fish populations over the past months....

...“this is certainly the most important congressional group to visit the Northern Marianas at one time.”....

...paper and reusable bags use more energy and release more greenhouse gas emissions than plastic bags....

...The radar loops show the destruction of the hurricane mass as it tries and fails to ride up the south slope of Mauna Loa....

MAX SUSTAINED WINDS 70 KT WITH GUSTS TO 85 KT....

The first phase starts with 650-699 cows....

...imagine the humiliation when, without any prior consultation with him, Obama announced a move that could have enormous ramifications for the fishing industry that is the foundation of the territory’s private sector....

Hepatitis A, which causes severe gastrointestinal illness and, in severe cases, liver failure and death, incubates in the human body for between 15 and 50 days....

Officers, Prosecutors, Lawmakers and Conservationists Meet at UH Law School....

Media exaggerated the patch size by a factor of more than 200....

“Protected Monument Marine Parks,” without consultation with industry or science, has created an environment of increased pressure to secure fishing access within the remaining ocean....

Two important bills the Council is reviewing may affect these items....

The sky fell on Hawaii last month, all because carbon dioxide levels peeped above the much-hyped 400 ppm hurdle....

...from some of the reaction we're seeing, you might think the Imperial Japanese Navy was once again off of our fair shores....

Bill Would Require Congressional Approval for Marine Monument Declarations....

...in the not-too-distant future all of America’s tuna will be caught by foreign vessels....

...In Kilakila O Haleakala v. University of Hawaii the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals rejected a challenge under Hawaii's environmental review statute....

The removal of and protection against “bad” and "ugly" natural capital such as invasive plants and feral animals....

Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios....

...the EPA's new cap-and-trade regulations will make the poor a lot poorer....

Cox tells how he has literally risked life and limb in the pursuit of the truth behind crime and cover-ups in Hawaii government....

...the Environmental Protection Agency, which will release its carbon-dioxide regulations for existing power plants on Monday....

...1,500 residential units in five towers will be the city’s first catalytic Transit Oriented Development project along the rail route....

...there is only one region (Honolulu) in Hawaii that has records dating back "nearly a century"....

...the only thing standing between the bill and the rest of us is Governor Abercrombie's veto pen....

...Honolulu City Council’s Committee on Public Works and Sustainability held a hearing yesterday to discuss a proposal to expand the existing ban to include biodegradable bags....

...something remarkable happened in the last days of our legislative session....

...the amount of land required to grow food has decreased by 65 percent over the last 50 years across the world....

Just one 25-gallon tank of ethanol requires 450 pounds of corn -- the same amount of calories it would take to feed one person for an entire year....

... 7.5 million gallons of contaminated water, toxic soil, trash, fecal matter and human medical waste poured into west Oahu’s ocean waters on Jan. 13, 2011 ....

A federal grand jury in Honolulu returned a 13-count indictment today charging Waste Management of Hawaii Inc....

"It would be an opportunity for us to within the existing resources acquire the easement." --Ige

Biofuels made with corn residue actually release 7 percent more greenhouse gas....

...this finding would not hold if fuel prices were substantively lower than current levels, either from falling prices or fuel-switching to lower cost products....

Here are two examples that may surprise you....