On November 28, the Hawai`i Green Infrastructure Authority (HGIA) proposed a new method by which GEMS funds could be distributed to residential customers. As with several other previous proposals, the Public Utilities Commission batted it down, ordering instead an “informal … Continued
January 2017
On December 1, Western Pacific Fishery Management Council chair Ed Ebisui, Jr., and executive director Kitty Simonds sent a letter to President Barack Obama advocating for direct compensation to Hawaii longline fishery participants impacted by the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine … Continued
December 2016
On January 9, the contested case hearing on Na Moku Aupuni o Ko‘olau Hui’s 2001 petition to amend the interim instream flow standards (IIFS) of 27 East Maui streams resumes. The group, which includes native Hawaiian taro farmers and cultural … Continued
Opponents Block Efforts to Allow Wind Farm to Harm Rare Animals On November 10, multiple requests for a contested case hearing forced the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to defer taking action on a request by the Department … Continued
For more than a decade, beginning in 1992, Riki May Amano served as a judge in Hawai‘i’s 3rd Judicial Circuit, which, like all judicial circuits in the state, is bound by strict rules of evidence and procedure that, generally speaking, … Continued
The evidentiary hearing in the second contested case over the application to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea began October 20 in the Willie K Crown Room of the Hilo Naniloa Hotel. The nightclub setting for the quasi-judicial … Continued
November 2016