Environment

The Chairperson of DLNR will review the applications and select individuals that are deemed qualified to serve on the Water Security Advisory Group per the requirements of Act 172....

...18 Nene killed by the Kaheawa Pastures turbines with ridiculously small search areas and infrequent search intervals....

...these turbines are contributing to species extinction faster than any other source of energy....

...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."....

Really Obvious Question: How much did DLNR pay for this 635 acre parcel?  --- DLNR isn't telling ....

...Community members will be trained to act as citizen scientists to 'Snap the Shore, See the Future'....

...for failure to submit payments and reports required of beverage distributors by the State’s Deposit Beverage Container law....

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....

...it turns out that Hillary Clinton confirmed this fact in a private speech to tinePublic on June 18, 2014....

“The bees are dying,” read one Washington Post lede....

By a 3-2 majority the court affirmed the state land board’s decision in 2012 to grant a permit to build the Telescope....

10 insects and 39 plants ....

...the City failing to follow through on the audit recommendations and court orders....

The state has estimated that it would cost around $800 million to realign and widen Honoapiilani Highway from Maalaea to the Lahaina bypass....

...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....

Mosquitoes, which carry avian malaria, are a principal reason that just forty-two of more than a hundred species of native Hawaiian birds remain....

...retailers could gain an estimated $442 million in annual revenue from the sale of paper bags and reusable bags....

... Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument will be as big as France, Spain and Germany combined ....

...there are more than 8 million visitors annually....

...But Humpbacks are still protected against the murderous onslaught of anti-Superferry whale watching boats....

Zika is a highly-effective population control device ....

“…The Papahānaumokuākea marine park created by Barack Obama could end up as just a ‘paper park’, argue US and UK marine experts….”

... the "compensation culture" ....

...Liu submitted false invoices to be paid from the state after being awarded a state contract to start a certified redemption center....

...five Kauai-based conservation officers flew there in mid-August....

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....

...a Co-Trustee position places OHA at all levels of decision making in the governance of Papahānaumokuākea....

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)....

...Ige announced the appointment of Samuel M. Gon III to the Board of Land and Natural Resources....

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....

The proposed monument expansion could prohibit commercial tuna fishing by U.S. vessels in two-thirds of U.S. offshore waters around Hawaii....

...the inability of the mayor to address this infrastructure failure is clear negligence....

...first official meeting on Thursday, August 18 at 6 p.m. at Koko Head Elementary School....

Meetings set for Oahu and Kauai ....

...the Hunting, Farming, and Fishing Association....

... 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 ....

Letter to Obama from Sen Akaka, Gov Cayetano, and Gov Ariyoshi ....

Suddenly biomass is not clean energy?

“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....’”

Under the settlement, the two companies will spend about $403 million to install and operate pollution control equipment....

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....

House Bill 1041, establishing a statewide Game Management Advisory Commission was signed into law as Act 210, on July 5, 2016....

Our fishermen are among the major fresh food producers for Hawai‘i, with about 80% of the catch consumed in our local communities....

...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....

...in a June 16 letter, Case said she was not extending Friel's employment past his six-month probation period....

...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....

...aerial shooting from helicopters of feral goats, feral sheep, mouflon and mouflon/feral sheep hybrids....

... big oil is funding these ocean closures worldwide ....