In the last month of the last year of the last Democratic governor, the Department of Land and Natural Resources effected small but important changes to the administrative rules of a broad swath of its agencies. The changes all addressed … Continued
Disappearing Act: The Incredible Shrinking Fines at the DOH Time and again, newspaper headlines in Hawai’i scream out the apparently high fines the state Department of Health proposes for any and all who fail to toe the line when it … Continued
The ostrich is not native to Hawai’i, but it has taken a firm foothold here, in the ranks of the state bureaucrats charged with managing the recovery of the islands’ dwindling numbers of endangered forest birds. That’s the only possible … Continued
The Land Board Shuts Out the Public Assume, for the moment, that the public has a right to know what the agencies that control resources it owns do with those resources. You might want to have a law, say, that … Continued
Unsustainable Losses of Leatherbacks After a run of a hundred million or so years, the Pacific leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is looking death in the eye. Over the last couple of decades, exponential declines in numbers of nesting female leatherbacks … Continued
A Statement from the Board and Staff of Environment Hawai`i The board and staff of Environment Hawai`i oppose strongly the coming war with Iraq. We take this stand because we believe it is imperative that thoughtful, reasonable people within the … Continued