Environment

...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....

Why would someone criticize such a storied name in American charity as ours?....

"...the aquarium take on Maui is literally a drop in the bucket, representing less than 2% of the total mortality of (Maui) reef animals that year...."

...the United Nation’s is holding its annual “We’ve got to save the planet this year or it’s too late and we’re all doomed — no really, this time we mean it,” Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Doha, Qatar this year.... 

...proposal to list 66 species of corals under the Endangered Species Act....

This review has found the entire student transportation services program to be in need of systemic change.

• Honorable Harry P. Freitas as District Court Judge, Third Circuit-term expires on May 31, 2013
• Honorable Lloyd X. Van De Car as District Family Court Judge, Third Circuit-term expires on May 31, 2013
• Honorable Rhonda A. Nishimura as Circuit Court Judge, First Circuit-term expires on June 19, 2013

Governor Abercrombie has 30 days from his receipt of the list today to make his appointment.

Among the 50 states, the top 10 least competitive commercial health insurance markets are in: 1. Alabama, 2. Hawaii, 3. Michigan....

 ... $3.7 million for capital improvement projects (CIPs) at Hilo Medical Center ....

The U.S. Supreme Court decides next week whether to hear challenges to laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of a man and a woman....

Census Bureau Reports More Adults Living in Shared Households, More Receiving Food Stamps, Public Assistance Unchanged....

Matson estimates the combined increase of the rate adjustment and terminal handling charge will result in shipping costs rising by an average of 5.6 percent.

A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom was approved by Leeward HSTA to be shared with the HSTA board on Saturday....

Hawaii has completed more than 90 percent of its RTTT grant deliverables in the past 24 months....

The Executive Office on Early Learning released new research-based standards, which identify the expectations of knowledge and behavior for children from birth up through kindergarten entry....

Survey of four-bedroom, two-bathroom homes covers 72,000 properties in 2,500 U.S. Markets....

The Hospital Safety Score is an A, B, C, D, or F letter grade reflecting how safe hospitals are for patients.

...and HSTA members at over 36 schools plan 'Work to Rule' protests for Thursday....

Services will be held at Waialae Baptist Church on Sat., Dec. 15....

...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $44 million for various capital improvement projects (CIPs) statewide, including public schools, health facilities, transportation infrastructure and more....

Chief Justice Recktenwald has 30 days from his receipt of the list today to make his appointment.

Archer told commissioners that if the commission steps up, the lawsuit may not be necessary.

...providing safe and reliable utility service at a reasonable cost, through the development of Resource Plans and Scenarios....