Environment

biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....

....special use permits – with specific use conditions -- for non-commercial recreational use of kayaks, stand-up paddle boards and one-person canoes....

A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground...

Abercrombie has nominated Genevieve Salmonson to the position of interim director of the state Department of Health (DOH) Office of Environmental Quality Control, effective today....

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense....

Army announces the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement to construct and operate a modern Infantry Platoon Battle Course and associated infrastructure at Pōhakuloa....

Why would one of the state’s largest developers fund so-called anti-development groups?

On April 8, 2013, EarthJustice secured a court order to resume aerial eradication on Mauna Kea....

Climatologists have suffered numerous blows to their reputation as evidence continues to emerge about data altering and a plethora of half-truths used as propaganda....

...the Pacific Islands Parks Act of 2013, would direct the National Park Service to complete studies of three designated sites in the state of Hawai‘i....

Undercutting the trope that the lawsuit by a Marin County, California oyster farm to keep operating is all a right-wing plot ....

...no trace of the chemical was ever found in our Waimea-Kekaha water system, and there has been no detection (Countywide) since 2005....

...It costs 30,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission to produce an electric car, equal to about 80,000 miles of travel....

What is the appropriate price per ton for 'polluters' to pay? The draft contains alternative prices of $15, $25, and $35 per ton....

...the environmental lawyers upped the ante by calling Callies a liar and a sell-out....

A federal consultant says this area likely contains hundreds if not thousands of Hawaiian burials ....

We have presented our technology to and proposed a strategic relationship with various state agencies in the State of Hawaii, which closely aligns itself with Governor Neil Abercrombie’s “New Day in Hawaii” initiative....

SB 894 would authorize the state to expend funds, swap land and explore other solutions to help preserve Turtle Bay lands.  This bill can be brought back next year, if negotiations fail, or to implement terms of an agreement....

Late last Friday, the State Department released a positive environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline....

... University of Hawaii Law School panel about "The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii"....

...poop from 70 homes can power VW Bug for 10,000 miles!

Waimanalo Gulch Landfill system which has recorded temperatures as high as 188 F....

They enter the store with reusable bags and can more easily conceal items they steal.  It's tough to tell what a customer has paid for and what they may already have brought with them....

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When you ram ships; hurl glass containers of acid; drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders; launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be.

Presented by the Environmental Law Program and the Federalist Society at 12:15 p.m. in CR1 at UH Richardson Law School Thursday, February 21....

...the court's environmental jurisprudence wasn't so much focused on outcome, but rather on process....

...Somebody is playing a joke on Sen Thielen, making her oppose her previous proposal....

...view state activity, EPA activity, or combined activity....

...such taxes can shrink the economy unnecessarily by discouraging investment and artificially raising the price of basic needs....

"...remove dead standing trees along roads...."

...liberals are increasingly shedding their humanist pretentions and showing (their true) misanthropic nature....

...the good professor labeled the record of the 1993-2010 Hawaii Supreme Court on property issues "appalling," so it should come as no surprise that two of the beneficiaries of those rulings have now rallied to that court's defense....

Census data strongly suggests that Hawaii, and Oahu in particular, are stable communities with very mild growth....