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Monday, November 25, 2024 |
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Do Marine Protected Areas Really Help Fisheries?
By News Release @ 12:14 PM :: 760 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... Papahānaumokuākea: Despite being one of the world’s largest MPAs, the PMNM showed no significant fishery benefits for tuna ....
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Thursday, November 21, 2024 |
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Fishing and Seafood Leaders Urge President Biden to Avoid Marine National Monument Designations in Final Days
By News Release @ 11:41 PM :: 893 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... The letter references a March 2021 statement from Chief Justice John Roberts, which raised concerns about the Antiquities Act ....
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 |
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DoD IG Rips Navy Red Hill Management
By News Release @ 2:54 PM :: 877 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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“...It is imperative that the Navy address ongoing challenges with the management of fuel and water systems at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam....”
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024 |
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Hawaiian Electric Signs Bird Agreement
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 854 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... commitments to address potential threats to seabirds from power lines on Maui and Lāna‘i, while pursuing permits under the federal Endangered Species Act and state law ....
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Friday, November 8, 2024 |
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Watch Duty Launches in Hawai'i to Provide Real-Time Wildfire Map and Alert System
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 882 Views :: Environment
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... popular non-profit app expands its coverage to Hawai'i to deliver more timely critical information about wildfires as they develop ....
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Thursday, October 31, 2024 |
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In Hawaii, parasites and viruses team up in the battle against fruit flies
By Selected News Articles @ 10:09 AM :: 715 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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... entomologist explains the implication for global pest control ....
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Thursday, October 31, 2024 |
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How Oily Profiteer Manipulated Maui Sunscreen Legislation for Personal Gain
By Selected News Articles @ 4:03 AM :: 1726 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Ethics
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... Maui Council candidate Kelly King's secret sunscreen empire ....
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024 |
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Green Appoints Water Commissioner, Salary Commissioners
By News Release @ 2:57 AM :: 755 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Development, OHA
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... appointment of V.R. Hinano Rodrigues to the Commission on Water Resource Management -- enviros call for Senate to reject nomination ....
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024 |
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Honolulu Airport 'Achieves Carbon Accreditation'
By News Release @ 11:24 AM :: 528 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tourism
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"...implemented sustainability strategies that have significantly reduced our carbon footprint and saved millions of dollars...."
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Sunday, October 13, 2024 |
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LNG fuel for shipping is necessary for regulatory compliance
By Michael Hansen @ 12:47 AM :: 735 Views :: Energy, Environment, Jones Act
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... LNG is an important fuel source to virtually eliminate most polluting emissions and significantly reduce carbon emissions ....
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Friday, October 11, 2024 |
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Eco-Lawyers Pledge to Hunt Aquarium Collectors to Extinction
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 704 Views :: Environment, Small Business, Tourism
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... The aquarium pet industry has finished the environmental review process to seek up to seven commercial aquarium permits for collection in West Hawai‘i ....
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Friday, October 11, 2024 |
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EPA Fines Daiso for Illegal Pesticides
By News Release @ 1:53 AM :: 809 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Small Business
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... Company to pay one of largest federal pesticides penalties: $314,747 ....
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 |
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State Sues Homeowner as House Collapses into Ocean
By News Release @ 5:02 AM :: 915 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Land Use
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... It also requests an order from the Court that provides the state owns the land clear of interest or claim by the defendant ....
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Thursday, September 26, 2024 |
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Coqui Frogs Invade Oahu Mountaintop
By News Release @ 1:19 AM :: 850 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... coqui roughly 200 meters below the summit of Kuliʻouʻou Ridge Trail on the leeward side of the mountains ....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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UH developed, living coastal-protection system prepares for deployment
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 1035 Views :: Environment, Higher Education, Land Use
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... 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 ....
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Sunday, September 1, 2024 |
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Hawaii National Parks Attract 4,764,320 Tourists
By News Release @ 3:55 PM :: 937 Views :: Environment, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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... Haleakala Park saw a 27% decrease in visitors in 2023 compared to 2022 ....
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Saturday, August 31, 2024 |
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DLNR Wages Bacteriological War Against Mosquitoes
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 999 Views :: Kauai County, Maui County, Environment
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... it is harmless to other creatures, including people ....
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 |
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Hawaii wants to force an oil ban on the rest of the country
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 PM :: 1805 Views :: Energy, Environment, Judiciary
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... this lawsuit seeks to compel companies to cease production and sale of oil and gas everywhere ....
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Friday, August 23, 2024 |
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Red Flag Warning For Leeward Areas Of All Islands Saturday From 10 AM To 6 PM
By News Release @ 11:01 PM :: 1172 Views :: Energy, Environment
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... 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 ....
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 |
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Dye Pack: Six Hours from Cesspool to Ocean
By Selected News Articles @ 12:24 AM :: 1749 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment
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... 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 ....
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Thursday, August 15, 2024 |
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Hawaii Ranks 49th for Invasive Plant Presence
By Selected News Articles @ 4:05 AM :: 789 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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... Hawaii has the 3rd-fewest invasive plants ....
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Friday, August 9, 2024 |
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Grand Wailea Bird Settlement Gives Enviros Monthly Cashflow
By Court House News @ 11:05 PM :: 901 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Tourism
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... The Grand Wailea Resort in Maui will make monthly contributions to fund projects ....
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 |
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$20M Payoff -- Climate Slush Fund for Native Hawaiian Organizations
By News Release @ 12:51 AM :: 886 Views :: Environment, OHA
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... Funding will be implemented through the Department's Office of Native Hawaiian Relations’ (ONHR) ....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024 |
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Ten Years of Fighting Rapid Ohia Death
By News Release @ 10:01 PM :: 818 Views :: Environment
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... the UH Agriculture Diagnostic lab isolated a well-known worldwide pathogen called Ceratocystis. “That rang alarm bells" ....
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Saturday, July 20, 2024 |
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EPA Orders Shutdown of Seven Cesspools at Maui County Facilities
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 750 Views :: Maui County, Environment
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... the County of Maui has agreed to close the seven Cesspools by June 30, 2025, and pay a $193K penalty ....
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Friday, July 19, 2024 |
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EPA: 'Emergency response missions on Maui are complete'
By News Release @ 6:50 PM :: 927 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development
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... EPA Completes Drinking Water and Wastewater Mission in Lahaina ....
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024 |
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Green Names Climate Advisory Team
By News Release @ 8:59 PM :: 1112 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment, Hawaii State Government
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... Team to Produce Policy Guidance for Climate Resilience and Disaster Recovery ....
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Saturday, July 13, 2024 |
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Outsider Foolishly Buys N. Shore Oceanfront Lot--BLNR Steals It
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 1171 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... the proposed fines totaled more than $3.2 million after some genius threw a rock at an albatross ....
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Sunday, June 30, 2024 |
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Supreme Court overrules landmark 'Chevron' precedent on government authority
By Court House News @ 3:39 AM :: 1298 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Labor, Land Use, Law Enforcement, Small Business
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... For 40 years, the Chevron precedent has been the backbone of administrative law, limiting judicial decision-making in favor of agency 'expertise' ....
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 |
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Scheme to Remake Lahaina as Touristy Water Park Advances in Congress
By Andrew Walden @ 5:12 PM :: 2986 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Hawaii History, Land Use, Tourism
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... The remade Lahaina will be a tourist-oriented animation of the pre-plantation era when the economy was based on slaughtering lots of whales ....
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 |
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Can Hawaii afford climate change lawsuit settlement?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 AM :: 1182 Views :: Energy, Environment, Taxes, Cost of Living
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"...There's going to be some pain...."
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Friday, June 28, 2024 |
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Did Hawaii just pave the way for court enforcement of California's climate promises?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:12 PM :: 903 Views :: Environment, Cost of Living
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... The settlement provides benchmarks for a greenhouse gas reduction plan that will be overseen and enforced by a court through 2045 ....
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Friday, June 28, 2024 |
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Hawaii Water Wars: If you don't claim a 'taking' you lose
By Robert Thomas @ 12:01 AM :: 981 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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... those standards only apply where there's a takings claim present. And there's no takings claims here ....
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Thursday, June 27, 2024 |
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Fate of Hawaii’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ hike hangs in balance at appellate court
By Court House News @ 2:55 PM :: 1011 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... Advocates to keep the stairs told the court that demolishing them will threaten the state's official mammal, the Hawaiian hoary bat. ....
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Friday, June 21, 2024 |
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More Taxes and Fewer Lanes: Green, DoT, Eco-Lawyers 'Sue and Settle' Scheme
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 1450 Views :: Energy, Environment, Taxes
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... The young plaintiffs are more likely to move to Las Vegas because of this settlement ....
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024 |
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Court stays six Red Hill lawsuits until verdict is reached in recent trial
By Selected News Articles @ 3:14 PM :: 1031 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... The six lawsuits involved in the court-ordered stay requested by the government involve 2,375 people ....
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024 |
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Six Feet Under: UH Doubles Sea Level Rise Projection (again)
By News Release @ 2:28 PM :: 1197 Views :: Environment, Tourism
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... 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? ....
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 |
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Green: Civil Beat Publisher will Steer Hawaii's Applications for Federal Funds
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 1435 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Pierre Omidyar
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... to assist in applying for and securing federal funds relating to renewable energy, local food, clean transportation, and fresh water ....
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Friday, May 31, 2024 |
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Red Hill Tanks to be Vented and Cleaned
By News Release @ 4:38 PM :: 1193 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... Notification to the public at least 12 hours before the start of venting a tank ....
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 |
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DoH: No Jet Fuel Found in Navy Water System
By News Release @ 4:26 AM :: 1092 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... 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 ....
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Friday, May 17, 2024 |
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The Dire Cost of Disinformation
By Joni Kamiya @ 6:58 PM :: 1946 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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... the very first coconut rhinoceros beetle was detected here in Hawaii 11 years ago ....
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Thursday, May 16, 2024 |
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Feds Designate 2,000,000 Acres of Hawaii as 'Sentinel Landscapes'
By Ed Case @ 2:02 AM :: 1861 Views :: Environment, Congressional Delegation, Land Use, Military
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... 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 ....
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court says goodbye to federalism
By Selected News Articles @ 5:12 PM :: 2304 Views :: Environment, Judiciary
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... 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 ....
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 |
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Environmentalists hit snag in Navy fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 5:05 PM :: 1506 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... may have to wait until ongoing defueling is completed ....
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 |
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“Who protects Hawaiʻi from invasive species? You do.”
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 1491 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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... 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 ....
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 |
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14 Years Later: Honouliuli WWTP portion of Consent Decree completed
By News Release @ 2:27 AM :: 1487 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment
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... the second major milestone within the 2010 Consent Decree – the full secondary treatment upgrade of the Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant ....
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Friday, May 10, 2024 |
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After Nine Months of Toxic Lies, DoH Finally Admits: "We do not expect to find health impacts caused by toxins in the wildfire ash"
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 1869 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Tourism
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... “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 ....
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024 |
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Navy, NASA Begin Process to Renew Barking Sands Lease
By News Release @ 11:36 PM :: 485 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Military
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... 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 ....
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