Environment

Phase III is the middle portion of the property near the existing hotel where two additional hotels and amenities are planned....

...each quota owner would have the right to a specific percentage of the total allowable catch (TAC) in the season....

Bills 35, 36, and 37 were drafted in response to the rampant and illegal stockpiling and grading occurring throughout Leeward communities....

Watch our six minute movie and decide for yourself....

Hawaii is the third largest retailer of ivory and ivory products in the nation....

IRONY: PUC Commissioner Hermina Morita, adored by environmentalists, is facing fines for violating Hawaii conservation and zoning laws....

...leading Democratic senators attended a fundraiser at billionaire Tom Steyer's San Francisco home. The event, for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also featured former Vice President Al Gore....

This is the same worthless job Abercrombie gave to shut Gary Hooser up back in 2011....

Average of more than 770 jobs losses per congressional district....

Drawdown of existing groundwater stocks is likely still decades away....

Looks like they're at it again, a solution in search of a problem....

Eighty-seven percent of respondents to a recent study in Hawai'i want to see a decrease in the number of feral cats in the Hawaiian Islands....

This is the first combined House-Senate Majority package since 2008....

We're losing the bed bug race: Last year we were 33rd....

...the bleeding baby whales are left to suffer an unknown fate in shark-infested waters....

• DATE: Wednesday, January 08, 2014
• TIME: 10:00 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 225, State Capitol

• DATE: Wednesday, January 08, 2014
• TIME: 10:30 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 016, State Capitol

... final  regulations requiring the United States Navy to implement protective measures during training and testing activities off the coasts of California and Hawaii and on the high seas ....

Consumers choose plastic bags far more often than paper or reusable bags to carry their purchases.... 

...ten species that – thanks to the Endangered Species Act’s protections – are either steadily improving or have been recovered and removed from the list of imperiled species....

Because the new predictions are less dire than in the past, the IPCC’s old fans have suddenly become the new climate deniers, calling the IPCC’s latest report “political” and ignoring its key findings....

...the way it was conducted and its honest conclusion gives me more hope than I’ve had in a long time concerning the integrity of climate research....

In a State Public Utility Commission (PUC) hearing this morning, Commissioners issued an order confirming a motor carrier violation for SER Trucking connected with the August 31st sludge spill on the H-1....

While an untrammeled water market would fail to provide the optimal solution, regulators can facilitate efficient water trading by setting appropriate exchange rates....

DLNR is a bully taking away rights, threatening cultural livelihood and even trying to censor what can be shown on television. To this I say, long live “American Jungle”....

“It may take a little time for West Hawaii residents to get used to the sight of the flare burning 24 hours a day, seven days a week, especially at night, but the continuous flare means the system is doing what it’s designed to do.”

A controversial new method to manage fisheries is to assign “catch shares”....

While watching what was happening in other counties, Maui County decided to approach Monsanto - which has farms on both Maui and Molokai - to require disclosure of the company’s restricted-use pesticides and all information about related practices....

North Shore residents and transportation officials have been discussing proposals to improve Laniakea traffic for years....

United States has reduced more carbon dioxide emissions this century than any other nation. The U.S. emissions decline is due in large part to technological advances in natural gas production ....

Now, on a single day, I have been given the gift of multiple news reports each detailing new ways the government is hurting the environment while purporting to save it....

Electronic comments must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on February 3, 2014....

Southland Contracting, Inc. and Mole Construction, Inc. (Southland Mole JV) and local construction management firm Bowers + Kubota....

...over the past three fiscal years, the program has paid out $28 million more in handling fees than it has collected in container fees....

“We are currently investigating personal threats against Mayor Carvalho that have been made via phone, email, and social media since the Mayor’s announcement to veto Bill 2491,” stated Police Chief Darryl Perry....

"Hawaii is unquestionably vulnerable to changes in climate such as rising temperatures, droughts, flooding, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification.” -- Abercrombie

...between 4.9 million and 6.1 million pounds of radioactive waste were created to make these wind turbines....

Abercrombie has nominated Genevieve Salmonson to the position of interim director of the state Department of Health (DOH) Office of Environmental Quality Control....

The United States should not accept a reduction in the bigeye tuna limit for the Hawaii longline fishery....

It was sunny, humid, beautiful October morning, and volunteers greeted us with event programs at the entrance to Pier 38....

The subpoena was revealed Thursday in a report obtained by Watchdog.org from the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission....

Ecological non-use benefits and the costs of eradication and control programs are often difficult to quantify....

State senators have, at last count, gotten 1,539 emails from residents about the spill and 272 emails from supporters of gay marriage; 602 in opposition....

Unregulated access to the marsh has already led to damage of archaeological sites. Trails will attract dog walkers....

Hawaii is the first sub-national government to sign onto the Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership, presented Friday by the Leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum to the United Nations Secretary General....