Imperium Renewables, LLC, a company based in Washington state, has been granted a 35-year lease at O`ahu’s Kalaeloa Harbor, where it plans to produce some 100 million gallons of biodiesel each year. Once it completes its processing facility in 2009, … Continued
No Permits for Vacation Rentals in Conservation District To young Leah Suesen, the thought of her hometown becoming a “horizontal hotel” scares her. Suesen, one of more than 100 Ha`ena residents opposed to the proliferation of vacation rentals there, asked … Continued
Among the measures passed by the 2008 Legislature are ones to increase fines for violations of the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ land use regulations and to beef up the Department of Agriculture’s powers to control noxious plants. By … Continued
In March, Environment Hawai`i reported on the efforts of the `aha kiole advisory committee to award a contract to Leimana DaMate, whose involvement with the puwalu series of workshops sponsored by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council has generated some … Continued
I’d like to clarify something that Kitty [Simonds, executive director of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council] misrepresented at the 141st council teleconference: The email that I sent to all council staff consisted of a page from one of the … Continued
Recently, I trekked around Kilauea – through lava landscapes where the earth opens up like a crystal ball and we can peer into the past and future of Hawai`i. My first trip descended Hilina Pali, the long slope that stretches … Continued
The pictures of dead roadside shrubs and tortured, shriveled leaves say it all: If introduced to Hawai`i, myoporum thrips could do to naio what erythrina gall wasps did to the state’s wiliwili trees. At last March’s Natural Area Reserves System … Continued
In support of maintaining the standard of comprehensive and accurate reporting that we all value so much in this publication, we would like to offer a few corrections and additions to the article entitled “Groups Seek Federal Listing For Black-footed … Continued
“We’re bringing coals to Newcastle.” That’s how Don Thomas, a geochemist with the University of Hawai`i’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, described recent findings in a presentation to the state Commission on Water Resource Management last March. Thomas’ Hawai`i Scientific … Continued
How is climate change going to affect Hawai`i? Little by little, scientists here and abroad are tackling that question. A lot has already been done, from Chip Fletcher’s work on coastal erosion and flooding in Honolulu to Dennis LaPointe’s, Carter … Continued