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Sunday, June 2, 2019 |
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Earth Is Nearly 520 Percent More Abundant Now Than in 1980
By Selected News Articles @ 8:30 PM :: 6032 Views :: Energy, Environment, Economy
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...Thanks to the ultimate resource: the human mind....
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Thursday, May 30, 2019 |
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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Hawaii’s Cauliflower Coral
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 3833 Views :: Environment
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... enviros allege there is a 36% decline in Cauiflower Coral populations ....
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Saturday, May 25, 2019 |
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Report: Hawaii Gives the Most 'Green' to Elon Musk and Al Gore
By News Release @ 3:39 AM :: 4693 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... Hawaii earned a top of-the-class A+ for spending as much as the settlement allowed on electric vehicle charging infrastructure (Elon Musk) and electrified mass transit buses (Al Gore) ....
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Thursday, May 23, 2019 |
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Debunk: Sierra Club Fluff Piece on Hawaii Carbon Credit Scheme
By Andrew Walden @ 5:44 PM :: 7568 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Ethics, Land Use
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...Apparently nobody at the Sierra Club Magazine knows what a penny stock tout is....
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Thursday, May 16, 2019 |
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HAWSCT: PUC Must Consider Whether Renewable Biofuel Energy Plant Might Impact Property Right To Clean And Healthful Environment
By Robert Thomas @ 6:53 PM :: 5478 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Environment
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...the court's conclusion that the property right to a clean and healthful environment not only requires the PUC to conduct an administrative trial, but that as part of the trial, the agency must expressly consider "the reduction of [greenhouse gas] emissions"....
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
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Hawaii to Sue over Global Warming? UH Law School Debunked
By News Release @ 4:52 PM :: 7871 Views :: Energy, Environment, Higher Education
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...the idea of suing America’s energy industry for climate change-related conduct and harms has been rejected many times, including by the highest court in the land....
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Friday, May 10, 2019 |
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Biomess: Hawaii Supreme Court Overturns PUC Approval of Hu Honua
By News Release @ 4:26 PM :: 6223 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Environment
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...the PUC erred by failing to explicitly consider the reduction of GHG emissions in approving the Amended PPA, as required by statute....
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 |
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No, Honolulu’s beaches aren’t going to disappear in 20 years
By Selected News Articles @ 2:40 PM :: 5621 Views :: Environment
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... Another climate lie bites the dust ....
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 |
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UH: 95% of our Students Tell Us They are Brainwashed
By News Release @ 4:25 AM :: 5072 Views :: Environment, Higher Education
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... The vast majority of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa students, 95 percent, are concerned or very concerned about climate change ....
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 |
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Ige: New Rules for EIS Process
By News Release @ 9:41 PM :: 5159 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...Gov. Ige has set July 30, 2019 as the date he will sign the new rules for the state Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process. The new rules will take effect on Aug. 9, 2019....
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Sunday, May 5, 2019 |
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Carbon Credits
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 6935 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... Department of Land and Natural Resources is doing a reforestation project in East Maui. It’s hired a vendor to certify the project for “carbon credits.” Why are they doing that if we don’t even have a carbon tax ....
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Thursday, May 2, 2019 |
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How Clean Is Your Electric Vehicle?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 4:27 AM :: 5790 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...Natural Gas rich Reno, NV is waaaay cleaner than Honolulu....
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019 |
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EPA Imposes $425K fine for Waimanalo Gulch Spill
By News Release @ 3:01 AM :: 4680 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...The agreement also calls for a series of facility upgrades to maintain compliance with stormwater regulations....
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Saturday, April 27, 2019 |
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OHA Releases Aina Summit Report
By News Release @ 3:45 AM :: 4693 Views :: Environment, OHA
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...Coinciding with Earth Day....
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Saturday, April 27, 2019 |
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City Releases 2019 Annual Sustainability Report
By News Release @ 3:25 AM :: 4689 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...This is the City and County of Honolulu’s inaugural annual sustainability report....
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 |
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State of the Air: Hawaii Among the Cleanest
By News Release @ 4:16 PM :: 6033 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Hawaii Boasts Some of the Best Air Quality in the Nation According to the ‘State of the Air’ 2019 Report....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 |
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DLNR: Another Step Towards State-Run Carbon Credit Scheme
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 6234 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Environment
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...Certifying the project under Verra’s VCS, which includes the verification and validation of the project by independent auditors, enables DOFAW to generate certified carbon credits that it, in turn, can sell to interested buyers, brokers, traders, or retailers....
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 |
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Lahaina Injection Wells: EPA won't regulate pollution that moves through groundwater
By Selected News Articles @ 5:14 PM :: 5309 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...the memo contradicts arguments EPA and the Department of Justice made on the same case three years ago....
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 |
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Unlucky and Unclean: How Not to Steal House 13
By Andrew Walden @ 10:23 PM :: 9873 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Ethics, Agriculture
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...With legal representation from Neil Abercrombie’s former Attorney General David Louie, former penny stock tout Jeffrey Dunster tried to use a bag full of receipts to claim ownership of a house known as ‘13’. It didn't work....
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Sunday, March 31, 2019 |
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Got Milk? DoH Consent Decree Requires Shut Down of Big Island Dairy
By News Release @ 4:03 PM :: 7188 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Agriculture, Small Business
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...The AOC requires Big Island Dairy owners to terminate their dairy operations, remove all their cows from confinement on the site, clean and remove the existing wastewater system, and pay $79,000 by June of 2019....
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Thursday, March 28, 2019 |
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Nominations Open for Commission on Water Resource Management
By News Release @ 3:22 AM :: 5003 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...The new term for the Commissioner will begin July 1, 2019 and run for four (4) years, expiring on June 30, 2023....
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 |
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Ala Wai? Corps of Engineers has Long History of Corruption and Cost Overruns
By Selected News Articles @ 9:08 PM :: 10903 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Ethics, Development, Military
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...Reminiscent of rail, projected Ala Wai costs have already leapt from $200M to $470M....
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 |
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Forgotten Voices: The Inadequate Review and Improper Alteration of Our National Monuments
By News Release @ 4:10 PM :: 6798 Views :: Environment, National News, Small Business, Obama
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...The American Samoan Government and its people were barely consulted before these monuments were established or expanded. As a result, our local fishermen were barred from accessing the waters that Samoans have been visiting for over a millennium....
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Friday, March 8, 2019 |
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SB931: Tourism Industry Aims to Shut Down Aquarium Fishery
By Selected News Articles @ 7:12 PM :: 6097 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism
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...Introduction of the aquarium fishery closure bill is the tourist groups’ attempt to preempt the HEPA environmental review completion....
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019 |
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Hirono Suggests She Was Joking When She Criticized the Green New Deal
By Selected News Articles @ 3:23 AM :: 7541 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Tourism
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...Just kidding! It turns out Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) is a fan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez....
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019 |
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Tokuda-Connected Recycler Busted for Fraud
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 10:55 PM :: 7758 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tax Credits
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...During FY 2018, the total deposit amounts reimbursed to Reynolds Recycling was approximately $7.96 million....
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Sunday, March 3, 2019 |
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Trump knocks 'crazy female senator' Mazie Hirono for comments on men
By Selected News Articles @ 4:41 AM :: 6848 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation
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...when asked about whether she supports the Green New Deal, Hirono responded “Well, I don’t know how people are going to get to Hawaii, but I’m in favor of the plan."....
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 |
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Conservationists Demand Half-Billion Reparations for Dead Hawaiian Tree Snail
By Selected News Articles @ 2:23 PM :: 3457 Views :: Environment
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...Just last month, George, the last known member of this snails species, died without a mate after 14 years in captivity....
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Friday, February 22, 2019 |
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Anti-Sunscreen Hysteria Designed to Force New Products Past FDA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:44 PM :: 5382 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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...Sunscreen has been in the news a lot lately. Both Hawaii and Key West, Florida, are trying to ban sunscreens containing certain ingredients....
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 |
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Report: Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop After Aviation Emissions Reclassified as 'International'
By News Release @ 3:32 AM :: 6630 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...By exporting airliner exhaust, the nearly 50% growth in Hawaii tourism numbers since 2008 is simply evaporated from this report.....
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019 |
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WOTUS: Lahaina Injection Wells Case to be Heard by US Supreme Court
By Selected News Articles @ 1:15 PM :: 6004 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...Maui’s attorneys argue the Ninth Circuit’s “radical expansion of point source permitting” goes beyond the CWA’s scope....
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Monday, February 11, 2019 |
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Hearing: Should Auwahi Windfarm Be Allowed to Kill 140 Bats?
By News Release @ 10:02 PM :: 5905 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... the DOFAW hearing will be held at 7:00 pm on February 15, 2019 at Kula Elementary School, 5000 Kula Highway in Kula ....
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Thursday, February 7, 2019 |
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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Aquarium Fishing and Hawaiian Culture
By Selected News Articles @ 11:49 PM :: 4370 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... the ancient Hawaiians were practical people that utilized their natural resources ....
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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There’s insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 AM :: 6422 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Tourism
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...the few studies that have addressed the environmental impacts of sunscreens experimentally “are not representative of real world conditions”....
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
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The Simon Abundance Index: Population growth equals greater resources
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:43 AM :: 4602 Views :: Environment, Economy
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...instead of making resources scarcer, population growth has gone hand in hand with greater resource abundance....
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
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Kauai Dairy Quits: "No Regulatory Path Forward"
By News Release @ 8:57 PM :: 7077 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture
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"...we were unable to find a clear regulatory path forward for this innovative and sustainable model of dairy farming...."
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
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City steps up approach to control feral cat population
By News Release @ 8:06 PM :: 4769 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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...The Hawaiian Humane Society’s new community cat program coordinator will work with colony caregivers and volunteers to trap, neuter and then return sterilized cats to the colonies they came from....
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |
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Shark Bites: Hawaii Still #2 in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 11:48 AM :: 5233 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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...In addition to the 66 unprovoked attacks worldwide, there were also 34 provoked attacks. Those include instances where divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, as well as attacks on spearfishers or people trying to feed sharks....
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
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Why are Climate Alliance governors in states with bad financial conditions?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:16 PM :: 4819 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...the average per-Taxpayer Burden for these 15 states runs almost $24,000—more than four times the average for the other 35 states....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
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The Misinformed, Ineffective War on Styrofoam
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:43 PM :: 4965 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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...a recent report on Oahu suggests that a Styrofoam ban is unlikely to reduce litter and increase recycling....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
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DoH cites Maui Land & Pineapple for wastewater violations
By News Release @ 4:36 PM :: 5049 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...The company has been ordered to pay a penalty of $230,000 and construct a new wastewater treatment plant....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 |
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Ill-Fated Ocean Cleanup Boom Collected only 2000kg Plastic
By Andrew Walden @ 10:39 PM :: 5394 Views :: Environment
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...the boom, tagged “Wilson” and “System 001” by OC, is being towed very slowly--between one and three knots--and is not expected to arrive in Hawaii until mid-January....
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 |
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Feds to PUC: Stop Approving Bat-Killing Windfarms without Endangered Species Permits
By Selected News Articles @ 5:27 PM :: 7658 Views :: Energy, Environment
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"...HECO has not been coordinating with the Service and DOFAW to verify that a wind energy producer has completed the necessary compliance procedures...."
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Monday, January 7, 2019 |
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Keli'i Akina Interviews Environmental Watchdog Caroll Cox
By Video @ 10:39 PM :: 5652 Views :: Environment, Ethics
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...Carroll Cox has spent decades investigating environmental violations by individuals, companies, and the government....
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Sunday, January 6, 2019 |
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Surprised by Wind and Waves in Pacific: Giant Plastic Eco-Boom Breaks up, Will soon wash up on Hawaii Beaches
By Selected News Articles @ 5:26 PM :: 4189 Views :: Environment
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...“Really obvious question: How long until wave action tears up these booms?”--Hawai'i Free Press, May 12, 2017....
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Saturday, January 5, 2019 |
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Auditor: Conveyance Tax Money Misspent by DLNR
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 8:05 PM :: 7254 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Land Use, Taxes
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...In 2005, the Legislature provided the land conservation program with a dedicated funding source – ten percent of conveyance tax collected...here's what happened next....
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Friday, January 4, 2019 |
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US Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court to Hear Maui Injection Wells Case
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 5113 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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...the petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 18-260 should be granted, limited to the first question presented ... whether a “discharge of a pollutant” occurs when a pollutant is released from a point source, travels through groundwater, and ultimately migrates to navigable waters....
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Monday, December 31, 2018 |
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Auditor: Styrofoam Ban Doesn't Reduce Litter
By News Release @ 3:13 PM :: 5771 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Small Business
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...H-Power allows recycling without requiring participation in the rituals of the eco-religion....
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Saturday, December 29, 2018 |
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Commissioners Sought for Legacy Land Conservation Commission
By News Release @ 6:20 PM :: 5904 Views :: Environment, Hawaii State Government, Land Use
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...Submit an online application to the Office of the Governor, Boards and Commissions, and learn more about how you can make an impact serving on the Commission....
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