What is H-POWER to do with its ash? Every day that it operates, H-POWER, Honolulu’s trash-to-energy plant, generates about 400 tons of ash in the process of burning about 2,000 tons of municipal solid waste. Almost all of the ash … Continued
Could the lead, cadmium, arsenic, and other heavy metals in H-POWER ash ever reach such high levels that the ash is regulated as hazardous waste? Absolutely, positively not. That’s not to say the levels could not be high enough to … Continued
Chapter 11-261 of the state Department of Health’s administrative rules contains the language exempting H-POWER from regulation as a generator of hazardous waste, no matter what the characteristics of its ash may be. Section 11-261-4(b) describes “solid wastes which are … Continued
Will Bovine Growth Hormone Work On Shrimp? UH Study Seeks To Find Out Gordon Grau, a scientist with the University of Hawai`i’s Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology, has been administering recombinant bovine growth hormone to shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) and tilapia … Continued
What impact will global warming have on Hawai’i’s land-based plants and animals? Among those scientists who have looked into the subject, the consensus seems to be that global warming may be a final, irreversible insult to many of the Islands’ … Continued
More than one-sixth — 3.7 million tons a year — of Hawai`i’s carbon emissions come from cars, trucks, and other vehicles. And a large fraction of that, in turn, is generated by daily commutes of workers and students, shopping trips, … Continued
According to Tim Johns, the head of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, when it comes to dealing with the closing sugar operations, “The state needs to be proactive, not reactive. There is a direct interest — state lands … Continued
In the next year or two, the Kona Coast of the island of Hawai’i will be the site of an experiment intended to help scientists gauge the feasibility of a technique called ocean sequestration of carbon. Among many policy makers … Continued
Contested Case To Be Held For Maunalua Bay Dredging “I ask for help, help, help. Nobody gives help,” Marshall Rosa told the Board of Land and Natural Resources at its meeting on July 7. Rosa entered the meeting carrying a … Continued
After 25 Years, Moloka`i Ranch Tries To Close Down Its Wild Game Business Moloka`i Ranch is in the final phases of closing its Wildlife Conservation Park, a drive-through tourist attraction featuring wild animals — zebras, giraffes, eland, oryx, Barbary sheep … Continued