Environment Hawai’i reprints here excerpts from the opinion of the Hawai’i Supreme Court on the matter of the Department of Health’s issuance of geothermal drilling permits to True Geothermal Energy Company in the absence of rules to regulate emission of … Continued
Over the years, sugar growers in Hawai’i have enjoyed an abundance of good will from politicians and public alike. The federal price supports for the domestic sugar industry might be the most well-known manifestation of this – although these benefits … Continued
For more than a decade, operators of the two sugar mills along the Hamakua Coast Hamakua Sugar Company, with a mill at Haina, and Hilo Coast Processing Company, with a mill at Pepe`ekeo have protested Environmental Protection Agency requirements that … Continued
On December 10, 1991, the Hawai’i County Council gave its final approval to eleven separate bills that, taken together, clear the way for unprecedented changes in the landscape and social character of the Hamakua Coast, especially along the eastern rim … Continued