Environment

...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....

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Abercrombie was right about one thing in his 2013 State of the State speech, there are too many answers in the form of solutions being proposed before sufficient questions are asked and researched....

House Bill 17 is scheduled for its first hearing in the House Committee on Water and Land on Friday, January 25 at 8:30 a.m. in House Conference Room 325....

Rep Thielen introduced House Bill 9 to repeal the controversial Public Lands Development Corporation....

Thousands of developed U.S. Forest Service recreation areas have utilized this PPP model successfully for more than 25 years....

"If the Legislature cannot achieve this outcome, the possibility of repeal will ensue."

ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase....

Toxic chemicals managed, treated or released into the environment from facilities operating in Hawaii slightly increased in 2011 when compared to 2010....

The bag tax revenue could very well be exceeded by the expenses caused by additional hospitalizations.

ORMP sets its own ”Management Priorities” and right at the top of the list is priority #1....

Comments on the state’s Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS are due by Feb. 7, 2013....

Oahu will grow taller thanks to strong volcanic forces that lift it up from the bottom of the ocean....

Intermediate Court of Appeals held that the Hawaii Senate's failure to confirm a sitting Land Use Commissioner for a second term did not disqualify him from office ....

...this matter is remanded to the Federal Transit Administration....

"For me, personally, I believe global climate change is real, and it is the most urgent challenge of our generation," Schatz said.

In Hawaii, hunting has had a long tradition that for political reasons is being eradicated....

Friday January 11, 2013 at 1pm 

...designate the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — including the portion of the enormous imaginary Pacific Garbage Patch within United States waters — as the nation’s newest Superfund site....

...the Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed a legal challenge in state circuit court to the Hawai‘i Department of Taxation’s recent decision to cut back on tax credits....

As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that the United States and other developed countries pay them for the climate’s effects....

... several deficiencies expose the Program to fraud, including the over-reliance on self-reporting by Program personnel and lack of systematic compliance inspections....

They do not want to protect fish. They only want to eliminate fishermen who stand in the way of their ocean based businesses....

Taxes on wages, dividends, interest, and partnership/sole proprietor income would exceed 50 percent only in Hawaii, California, and New York City….

...The Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals held in this unpublished memorandum order that the Commission must hold a "contested case" hearing upon demand....