Posted 4/30/2010 The Maui Planning Commission has upheld the decision of former Planning Director Jeff Hunt that the county did not need to obtain a major Special Management Area permit before drilling two new injection wells to receive treated effluent from … Continued
(Posted 11/24/09) A Council Member’s Dissenting View on Bigeye Issue Peter Young, appointed by the governor to represent Hawai’i on the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, has voiced his strong disagreement with the council’s action on bigeye tuna in a … Continued
(Posted 5/1/09) When it comes to meetings of the state Land Use Commission, high drama is in short supply. More often than not, you need to mainline caffeine to stay awake through the tedious witnesses and cross-examination. But the … Continued
(Posted 8/18/08) Even as the public eye is focused on the presidential candidates, the current administration is still working hard to reshape government in its own image before it loses its lease on the White House. No more stunning example … Continued
(Posted 1/14/08) The nation’s premier professional association for ecologists, the Ecological Society of America, has weighed in with a statement on biofuels that urges policy-makers and planners to go slow in converting lands to biofuel crops. “Supplying the emerging biofuels industry … Continued
(Posted 11/2/07) In all the recent coverage of the Hawai`i Superferry, little has been said about a troubled sister ship that briefly plied the waters of Lake Ontario. Here are some of the facts about its short-lived service between Toronto … Continued
(Posted 11/1/07) Dibromochloropropane, a nasty pesticide that continues to lurk in Hawai`i’s aquifers long after the pineapple fields have gone fallow, was used throughout Central America as well – and with consequences equally disastrous. In November, a Los Angeles jury … Continued
(POSTED 6/11/07) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released for public comment a report that concludes there is little risk of a terrorist attack on the proposed Honolulu irradiator jeopardizing public health or the environment. The document is an appendix to … Continued
(POSTED 4/26/07) The lease of 10 acres of state land to Venu Pasupuleti, an Ohio entrepreneur, moved forward last month when the board of directors of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority voted 6-3 to approve a set of … Continued
(POSTED 4/18/07) The Hawai`i Campaign Spending Commission went along with the recommendation of its staff and, in a vote November 13, effectively overturned a key element of Hawai`i election laws. Now, the voting public will no longer be able to … Continued