Two years after passage of a law intended to jumpstart the purchase of renewable energy technology by underserved customers, Environment Hawai`i takes a look at how the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has developed the Green Energy Market … Continued
When it comes to the arcana of American jurisprudence, the cases alleging Central American worker injury as a result of DBCP exposure provide a good introduction. There you will find such unusual tactics as impleadings, claims of forum non conveniens … Continued
Best available science – science uncorrupted by overweening economic objectives or political interests. That’s the kind of science that is supposed to guide the nation’s fishery management councils as they advise the federal agencies that ultimately decide such important issues … Continued
In this issue – the first in our 25th year of publishing! – we review cases of recent environmental litigation. Our cover story discusses the critically important decision of a federal judge in a case involving the discharge of wastewater … Continued
The same phrase that gladdens the heart of the visitor industry arouses dread in the hearts of the officials charged with keeping Hawai`i’s environment and important crops safe from marauding invaders. Consider: The coconut rhinocerous beetle. This native of India … Continued
Greed is good. That, anyway, was the mantra of the Wall Street anti-hero. But it serves just as well the owners of the Hawai`i longline fishing fleet and their personal civil servant, Kitty Simonds. Not content to accept the miserly … Continued
The recent decision of the Hawai`i Supreme Court involving a bottling company’s use of spring water has moved the case forward — back into the lap of the county agency that denied it the permits it needed in the first … Continued
To all those who say you can’t fight city hall or those with deep pockets, or who assert that once-forested of the islands are too degraded to be restored, or who are daunted by a years-long struggle to claim your … Continued
For more than a century, Hawai`i’s pre-territorial system of highways and trails has been protected by law. However, as our February 2014 issue makes clear, that protection is not ironclad. Time and again, it seems, state government has bowed to … Continued
The recent meeting of the body charged with regulating tuna catches in the Pacific concluded last month – and for bigeye tuna and all who love them, the news is not good. That Hawai`i’s own Western Pacific Fishery Management Council … Continued