Environment

...tons of junk flown from the camps by expensive helicopters will be stored for 30 days and unless rightful owners reclaim their items, they will be discarded....

...the USNS Puerto Rico is the ship being considered by Bay Ferries....

Applications for a vacant position on the State Commission on Water Resource Management are now being accepted for a new term that will begin July 1....

"...the Sanctuary will not have an expanded purpose...."

February 10 and 11, and May, 4 and 5, 2016....

Water flow and sediment monitoring on coral reefs off the island of Lāna‘i provides conservation projects with guide for Ridge-to-Reef Management....

Last year we were 42nd ....

Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs....

Full Transcript of Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) Floor Speech January 5, 2016....

If you want a crash course in Hawaii's unique (some would say weird) water law, you can't do better than this video....

"Public-Private partnerships are really hard."

...“We are happy" -- Burning Anti-Cane Activists ....

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration volunteers, who shot the video, called police and told them he was "sitting next to the seal and possibly was harassing the seal,"....

Justices ruled 4-1 that the Hoopili development can proceed....

NASA has published a study in the Journal of Glaciology showing that overall Antarctic ice increased by 112 billion tons per year....

"Commercial aquarium fish collecting, in fact, does not occur to any great extent off most of the Hawaiian Islands...."

July, 2015: East Oahu: 400 Testify Against Federal Takeover of Maunalua Bay....

Here's the trick.  The 'second' biofuel plant will soon be the 'only' biofuel plant....

...Justice Pollack benchslapped the Department on each of the three variance standards....

After a seven-year circus of cowardly delay, the President's decision to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline is just one more indication of an utter disdain and disregard for salt-of-the-earth, middle-class working Americans....

...as it develops and adopts rules for its operation and administration....

Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it's still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill....

The Dole fruit and Dow chemical companies must face a lawsuit from migrant farm workers who claim they were harmed by a pesticide, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled....

Completed applications must be received by December 22, 2015....

...the Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended an existing green vehicle tax credit to the new breed of diesels....

Since Aug. 5th, the 145 active vessels in the Hawaii longline fleet have been prohibited from catching bigeye tuna....

Several states opposed the stay, including Hawaii...

The proposed species occupy 11 types of ecosystems....

EPA, State of Hawaii negotiate final settlement with U.S. Navy to upgrade Red Hill storage tanks....

The Service will not be designating Critical Habitat areas for these species at this time due to insufficient information....

Hawaii had not met targets on some key items in the Notice of Non-Compliance corrective action plan....

President Obama may follow the example of his predecessor George W. Bush and unilaterally designate large swaths of coastal America as “national monuments.”....

The meeting will be held at Washington Middle School from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Weds Sept 30....

...ohia trees are dying due to a fungal disease....

In the 1930s, residents and visitors could travel between Hawaii’s islands by boat....

Paper and cardboard should go to H-Power....

The Rule asserts jurisdiction over waters that are remote and intermittent waters....

The U.S. already leads the world in carbon emissions reduction thanks to the increased use of natural gas obtained through fracking....

... Caldwell 'Running from Controversy', 'Wasn't Around' During Crisis, 'Not the First Time' ....

... Hu Honua is #1 ....

The judge determined that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued 30 year permits to wind-energy companies without first conducting an environmental-impact assessment....

..."mission creep" could well set in....

The U.S. Army managed Yellowstone and other national parks until the National Park Service was established in 1916....

Public comment period opens for NOAA’s proposed rule to protect marine mammals in international fisheries....

Hawai‘i State Wildlife Action Plan lays out the strategy and plans of DLNR and its partners to address the conservation needs of Hawai‘i’s native wildlife over the next 10 years....

Once again, the anti-TMT, anti-GMO, anti-everything folks are going to protest....