Board Denies Koa Loggers’ Attempt To Subtract Restoration Costs From Fine If Koa Timber and its partner Hawai’i Forest Preservation LLC had their way, they would submit a detailed forest restoration plan to the Board of Land and Natural Resources, … Continued
Early last September, the Department of Health’s Clean Air Branch fined Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) $1,977,700 for burning the wrong fuel in its Pu’unene mill for 30 years. HC&S has been reported as saying that the large fine … Continued
“The distance from Los Angeles to Honolulu is half that between the Middle East and New York City, and it made that jump,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Jeff Burgett says, describing the leaps made by the West Nile … 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
Since 2001, the Hawai’i Department of Health has proposed fines totaling about $5 million against what would seem to be some of the state’s biggest environmental scofflaws: Eco-Feed, Maui Electric Company, Silva’s Equipment Rental, Inc., Marisco, Ltd., Chaminade University, the … Continued
Coughing up blood is never a good thing. So when Jason Pacheco started doing just that after following orders to mix a vat of unknown chemicals with cement at work, he complained to the Department of Health and filed suit … Continued
We’ll get back to you. That pretty much sums up the way the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ administration has treated the Natural Area Reserve System Commission’s push to get some enforcement down at the Ahihi-Kina’u NAR on Maui. … Continued