Environment

... 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 ....

The focus away from pesticides as the primary driver runs counter to the narrative shaped over the past few years by high profile advocacy groups....

Recent news making events have detracted from the great strides in the management of Maunakea....

The findings of the Draft EIS demonstrate that Hawaii Dairy Farms will be protective of the environment and serve as a model for sustainable agriculture in the Islands.....

... CLUE: Because Oahu is on an extinct volcano, the island is rising faster than the wildest projections of sea-level rise.  Al Gore just can't keep up with Madame Pele .... 

"...the consequences to landowners even for inadvertent violation can be crushing...."

Petition the President of the United States to Not expand the outer boundary of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Moument from 50 nautical miles out to 200 nautical miles....

...contested case hearings before the commissions on Water Resource Management, Land Use, Public Utilities, the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority and cases involving conservation districts, to be directly appealed to the Hawai‘i Supreme Court....

For decades, hippies seeking paradise have polluted the Napali Coast.  Now DLNR goes in to clean up their mess ....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

"...only four cities—Burlington-South Burlington, Vt.; Elmira-Corning, N.Y.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Salinas, Calif.—qualified for the 'cleanest cities' list in the "State of the Air' report...."

... HB2501 Conference Committee meets today at 2pm, do the math ....

…The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology occupies its own tiny island in Kaneohe Bay, known as Moku o Lo‘e....

...the Kaho‘olawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund will be depleted by FY2018....

...not only are thicker bags around, I’ve got a stock pile of paper bags now....

Here's what we are reading today....

The Hawaii State Supreme Court, in a 4-1 ruling this morning, has decided to allow Castle and Cooke to go ahead with its planned Koa Ridge development in Mililani....

"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected 157,000 acres of critical habitat for 125 species of plants and animals from the Hawaiian islands of Molokai, Maui and Kahoolawe....