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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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Exposed: How Windfarms Hide Millions of Bird Deaths
By Selected News Articles @ 7:19 PM :: 7372 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...these turbines are contributing to species extinction faster than any other source of energy....
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Monday, November 14, 2016 |
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Fishing Groups Question Legality of Antiquities Act in Monument Designation
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 5429 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...President's use of the Antiquities Act to declare new marine monuments in the United States' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is "an illegal and illegitimate use of presidential authority."....
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Thursday, November 10, 2016 |
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DLNR Bails out Insolvent Bishop Museum--Kalauao Valley Land Deal
By News Release @ 3:59 AM :: 6851 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Land Use
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Really Obvious Question: How much did DLNR pay for this 635 acre parcel? --- DLNR isn't telling ....
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Friday, November 4, 2016 |
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UH Seeks Believers to Photograph King Tides for Sea Level Rise Propaganda
By News Release @ 10:47 PM :: 5625 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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...Community members will be trained to act as citizen scientists to 'Snap the Shore, See the Future'....
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 |
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Six More Fined for HI-5 Violations
By News Release @ 10:13 AM :: 3860 Views :: Environment
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...for failure to submit payments and reports required of beverage distributors by the State’s Deposit Beverage Container law....
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Friday, October 14, 2016 |
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Am Samoa Tuna Canneries Shutting--Again
By News Release @ 3:51 PM :: 5377 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Due to a complex series of factors, including a long history of poorly thought out and misguided government policies, we find ourselves at a crossroads....
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Monday, October 10, 2016 |
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Clinton: Phony Anti-Fracking Groups are Russian Plot
By Selected News Articles @ 1:00 PM :: 5314 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...it turns out that Hillary Clinton confirmed this fact in a private speech to tinePublic on June 18, 2014....
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Saturday, October 8, 2016 |
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No, the Bee-Pocalypse Isn’t Here Yet
By Selected News Articles @ 3:17 AM :: 4598 Views :: Environment
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“The bees are dying,” read one Washington Post lede....
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Friday, October 7, 2016 |
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Victory: Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Haleakala Solar Telescope
By News Release @ 3:01 AM :: 9680 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Higher Education, Land Use, OHA
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By a 3-2 majority the court affirmed the state land board’s decision in 2012 to grant a permit to build the Telescope....
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Thursday, September 29, 2016 |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016 |
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City Negligent - Again - On Hanauma Bay
By Rep Charles Djou @ 3:14 AM :: 6376 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Ethics
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...the City failing to follow through on the audit recommendations and court orders....
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 |
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HIDOT Demands Money: Threatens to Cut off Lahaina
By News Release @ 1:37 AM :: 5722 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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The state has estimated that it would cost around $800 million to realign and widen Honoapiilani Highway from Maalaea to the Lahaina bypass....
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 |
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Feds ‘Search for Solution to Hawaii’s Mosquito Problem’
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 PM :: 7118 Views :: Environment, Health Care, GMOs
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"We all must be diligent in the search for a solution to the mosquito problem that affects humans and animals alike."
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 |
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DLNR Helicopters to Eradicate More Sheep
By News Release @ 5:17 PM :: 6472 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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...in the Mauna Kea Forest Reserve (Unit A), Mauna Kea Ice Age Natural Area Reserve (Unit K), Palila Mitigation Lands, and the Ka‘ohe Game Management Area (Unit G) on the island of Hawai‘i....
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Monday, September 12, 2016 |
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Could genetically modified mosquitoes save Hawaii’s endangered birds?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 5763 Views :: Environment, GMOs
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Mosquitoes, which carry avian malaria, are a principal reason that just forty-two of more than a hundred species of native Hawaiian birds remain....
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Friday, September 9, 2016 |
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Bag Ban: A Wealth Transfer from Customers to Big Grocers
By NCPA @ 5:32 AM :: 6049 Views :: Environment, Taxes
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...retailers could gain an estimated $442 million in annual revenue from the sale of paper bags and reusable bags....
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 |
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Papahanaumokuakea: The race for vast remote ‘marine protected areas’ may be a diversion
By Selected News Articles @ 10:17 PM :: 6102 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument will be as big as France, Spain and Germany combined ....
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 |
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Full Text: Ige Announces 10-Point ‘Biosecurity’ Plan
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 4986 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...there are more than 8 million visitors annually....
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016 |
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Victory: NOAA removes humpback from endangered list
By News Release @ 7:04 PM :: 5382 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...But Humpbacks are still protected against the murderous onslaught of anti-Superferry whale watching boats....
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Monday, September 5, 2016 |
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Friday, September 2, 2016 |
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Hawaii: Big marine protected areas 'could work against conservation'
By Selected News Articles @ 9:14 PM :: 5918 Views :: Environment, OHA
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“…The Papahānaumokuākea marine park created by Barack Obama could end up as just a ‘paper park’, argue US and UK marine experts….”
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Friday, September 2, 2016 |
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Visitors At The Volcano: Is The NPS Nuts?
By Robert Thomas @ 1:57 PM :: 5766 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... the "compensation culture" ....
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016 |
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Fraud: Maui Glass Recycler Gets Year in Prison
By News Release @ 9:13 PM :: 6178 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Taxes
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...Liu submitted false invoices to be paid from the state after being awarded a state contract to start a certified redemption center....
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Saturday, August 27, 2016 |
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List of Road and Park Closures for Waikiki Eco-Conference
By News Release @ 3:18 PM :: 5925 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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The World Conservation Congress will be held in Honolulu from September 1-10, 2016, at venues including the Hawaii Convention Center and the Neal S. Blaisdell Center....
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Friday, August 26, 2016 |
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Obama to Expand Papahanaumokuakea: OHA gets Co-Trustee’s Cut of the Green
By News Release @ 2:32 AM :: 6681 Views :: Environment, OHA
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...a Co-Trustee position places OHA at all levels of decision making in the governance of Papahānaumokuākea....
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Saturday, August 13, 2016 |
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Papahānaumokuākea: A Model for Everything Wrong in Hawaii Politics
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:43 PM :: 6163 Views :: Environment, OHA, Small Business
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Unnecessary division, stoked by ethnic, racial, and historical issues, pushed forward by an environmental movement that holds disproportionate influence in Hawaii (often heavily driven by mainland interests)....
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 |
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Hunting, Farming & Fishing Association backs candidates who “help feed Hawaii”
By News Release @ 1:02 PM :: 8783 Views :: Environment, Politicians, Second Amendment, Small Business
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“Our elected officials across the islands must work with local, state and federal governments to preserve and not restrict our rural Hawaii lifestyle.”
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016 |
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Ige Appoints Nature Conservancy Employee to BLNR
By News Release @ 6:07 PM :: 5370 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Ige announced the appointment of Samuel M. Gon III to the Board of Land and Natural Resources....
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016 |
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$188K Cesspools: EPA Fines State, Counties
By News Release @ 4:04 AM :: 6746 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Environment
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EPA today announced separate agreements with the County of Hawai‘i, the County of Maui and the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to close illegal large-capacity cesspools....
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Sunday, August 7, 2016 |
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Fishery Council Asks for Transparent Analysis of Proposed Marine Monument Expansion
By News Release @ 7:45 PM :: 6955 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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The proposed monument expansion could prohibit commercial tuna fishing by U.S. vessels in two-thirds of U.S. offshore waters around Hawaii....
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Saturday, August 6, 2016 |
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State Issuing Fines on City for Sewer Spill and Failure to Maintain Infrastructure
By News Release @ 8:05 PM :: 4764 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...the inability of the mayor to address this infrastructure failure is clear negligence....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Maunalua Bay Recreation Advisory Committee Meets for First Time
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 3472 Views :: Environment
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...first official meeting on Thursday, August 18 at 6 p.m. at Koko Head Elementary School....
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Monday, August 1, 2016 |
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Papahānaumokuākea Expansion Public Meetings
By News Release @ 2:53 PM :: 5729 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Meetings set for Oahu and Kauai ....
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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A Dream and a Vision
By Joni Kamiya @ 5:46 PM :: 7043 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment, Small Business
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...the Hunting, Farming, and Fishing Association....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Hot Schools: DoE Prepares for Illness and Exhaustion
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 7392 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....
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Thursday, July 21, 2016 |
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Papahanaumokuakea: Hawaii Fishermen get no response from Obama, Schatz
By News Release @ 5:25 PM :: 6075 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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“As you yourself note, the Hawaii longline fishery uses ‘responsible and sustainable practices and has resulted in Honolulu’s recognition as one of the nation’s ten most productive fishing ports....’”
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Monday, July 18, 2016 |
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EPA Imposes $425M in Costs on Tesoro, Parr Refineries
By News Release @ 5:58 PM :: 5178 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Under the settlement, the two companies will spend about $403 million to install and operate pollution control equipment....
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Sunday, July 17, 2016 |
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Sue and Settle Scheme Aims for Federal Control of Waters off Main Hawaiian Isles
By Selected News Articles @ 7:10 PM :: 4399 Views :: Environment
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New York Eco-Lawyers sue their comrades in the NOAA. The two sides will next collude in a 'settlement' to gain control of waters off Hawaii....
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Saturday, July 16, 2016 |
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DLNR Seeks Nominations for Game Management Commission
By News Release @ 4:14 PM :: 5176 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment
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House Bill 1041, establishing a statewide Game Management Advisory Commission was signed into law as Act 210, on July 5, 2016....
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Monday, July 11, 2016 |
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Papahānaumokuākea: Schatz Absurdly Wrong
By News Release @ 8:18 PM :: 6834 Views :: Environment
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Our fishermen are among the major fresh food producers for Hawai‘i, with about 80% of the catch consumed in our local communities....
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Friday, July 1, 2016 |
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Ige Signs Cool Schools, Water Bills
By News Release @ 3:24 AM :: 5984 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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...HB 2569 (Act 176) which aims to expedite the goals of the Department of Education to cool Hawai‘i’s schools, reduce energy costs, meet Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals....
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
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DOCARE Chief Forced Out—Retaliation for Investigating DLNR Corruption, Theft of Guns
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 12219 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement
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...in a June 16 letter, Case said she was not extending Friel's employment past his six-month probation period....
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
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Feral Cats Kill More Seabirds -- No Eradication Planned
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 5509 Views :: Kauai County, Environment
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...Last week, researchers discovered the bodies of six endangered Hawaiian Petrels at a remote breeding colony in Hono o Na Pali Natural Area Reserve, Kauai....
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
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DLNR Closing Mauna Kea, Bringing in Helicopters for Sheep Eradication
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 7204 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Second Amendment
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...aerial shooting from helicopters of feral goats, feral sheep, mouflon and mouflon/feral sheep hybrids....
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Sunday, June 19, 2016 |
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Big Oil, OHA, and Brian Schatz team up to Give Hawaii Fishermen the Shaft
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:36 PM :: 7402 Views :: Environment, Greenmail, OHA
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... big oil is funding these ocean closures worldwide ....
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Friday, June 10, 2016 |
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Hawaii honey bee die-off points to likely culprits—Not pesticides, but varroa and viruses
By Selected News Articles @ 9:39 PM :: 5848 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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The focus away from pesticides as the primary driver runs counter to the narrative shaped over the past few years by high profile advocacy groups....
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Friday, June 10, 2016 |
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Office of Maunakea Management: 16 Years of Stewardship
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 5905 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, OHA
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Recent news making events have detracted from the great strides in the management of Maunakea....
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