Environment

"...implemented sustainability strategies that have significantly reduced our carbon footprint and saved millions of dollars...."

... LNG is an important fuel source to virtually eliminate most polluting emissions and significantly reduce carbon emissions ....

... The aquarium pet industry has finished the environmental review process to seek up to seven commercial aquarium permits for collection in West Hawai‘i ....

... Company to pay one of largest federal pesticides penalties: $314,747 ....

... It also requests an order from the Court that provides the state owns the land clear of interest or claim by the defendant ....

... coqui roughly 200 meters below the summit of Kuliʻouʻou Ridge Trail on the leeward side of the mountains ....

... The project is on track for its first deployment of a 50-meter array of structures near the Ulupaʻu crater, off the Kailua Bay side of Marine Corps Base Hawaiʻi in late 2024, early 2025 ....

... Haleakala Park saw a 27% decrease in visitors in 2023 compared to 2022 ....

... it is harmless to other creatures, including people ....

... this lawsuit seeks to compel companies to cease production and sale of oil and gas everywhere ....

... A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and dry fuels can contribute to extreme fire behavior. Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly ....

... the dye emerged at a shoreline spring, telling us that the wastewater from at least one home, and possibly more, is flowing out into Kahaluʻu Bay ....

... Hawaii has the 3rd-fewest invasive plants ....

... The Grand Wailea Resort in Maui will make monthly contributions to fund projects ....

... Funding will be implemented through the Department's Office of Native Hawaiian Relations’ (ONHR) ....

... the UH Agriculture Diagnostic lab isolated a well-known worldwide pathogen called Ceratocystis. “That rang alarm bells" ....

... the County of Maui has agreed to close the seven Cesspools by June 30, 2025, and pay a $193K penalty ....

... EPA Completes Drinking Water and Wastewater Mission in Lahaina ....

... Team to Produce Policy Guidance for Climate Resilience and Disaster Recovery ....

... the proposed fines totaled more than $3.2 million after some genius threw a rock at an albatross ....

... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....

... The remade Lahaina will be a tourist-oriented animation of the pre-plantation era when the economy was based on slaughtering lots of whales ....

"...There's going to be some pain...."

... The settlement provides benchmarks for a greenhouse gas reduction plan that will be overseen and enforced by a court through 2045 ....

... those standards only apply where there's a takings claim present. And there's no takings claims here ....

... Seventeen plaintiffs are asking for $7 million ....

... Advocates to keep the stairs told the court that demolishing them will threaten the state's official mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat. ....

... The young plaintiffs are more likely to move to Las Vegas because of this settlement ....

... The six lawsuits involved in the court-ordered stay requested by the government involve 2,375 people ....

... UH has been peddling '3.2-foot' sea level rise claims since 2018.  That projection was itself a doubling of earlier projections.  Now they have suddenly doubled it again to six feet.  Did you notice? .... 

... to assist in applying for and securing federal funds relating to renewable energy, local food, clean transportation, and fresh water ....

... Notification to the public at least 12 hours before the start of venting a tank ....

... no petroleum or jet fuel compounds were detected in 15 drinking water samples collected at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) and Aliamanu Military Reservation (AMR)—12 from homes at JBPHH and AMR and three from source water shafts ....

... the very first coconut rhinoceros beetle was detected here in Hawaii 11 years ago ....

... The program creates partnerships between federal agencies, state and local governments, private landowners, land managers and non-profits to preserve sensitive lands and resources near military bases ....

... The litigation model adopted by Hawaii, characterized by suing oil companies under broad claims about their contributions to climate change, demands a national spotlight for its potential to disrupt the constitutional equilibrium between state innovation and federal authority ....

... may have to wait until ongoing defueling is completed ....

... HDOA has opened two requests for proposals (RFP) – one for community-based management of coconut rhinoceros beetles (CRB) on O‘ahu and another to support green waste management ....

... the second major milestone within the 2010 Consent Decree – the full secondary treatment upgrade of the Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant  ....

... “Economic pressures will cause ‘toxic’ hysteria to be hyped up until locals sell out.  Then the hysteria will evaporate and be forgotten as Lahaina is rebuilt as Wailea v2 surrounding the ‘Venice of the Pacific’ water feature.”  -- HFP, Nov 2023 ....

... Navy’s and NASA’s proposal to retain the use of 8,348 acres and 23 acres, respectively, of State lands presently utilized pursuant to leases and easements on Kauai ....

... Three Words: 'Conflict Of Interest' ....

... over the last 16 years, one bird died ....

... groundwater monitoring to support the Navy’s request to reduce the amount of water being discharged into Halawa Stream from 4.5 million gallons a day to 1.8 million gallons a day ....

... after hearing impassioned testimony from members of the community, the tentative proposed fined of more than $117,000 for damage caused to corals and live rock, was increased to $1,818,851.97 to account for “emotional distress to the community” ....

... and an interactive Skyline tour, showcasing that Earth Day is for everyone ....

There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge....

Ira Einhorn, Master of Ceremonies, Earth Day Rally on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, Phila, PA, Apr. 22, 1970.

... the case should be in the Supreme Court’s domain given the implications it could have for the U.S. economy, national security and federalism ....

... The consent order requires the County of Hawai‘i to address broken equipment and deferred maintenance ....