No Greenbacks for Greenhouse Panel: Lately, Governor Lingle has stressed the importance of Hawai`i turning to “clean energy” and reducing its reliance on fossil fuels. In remarks to the international climate change summit in Honolulu last month, for example, she … Continued
Last November, in an effort to obtain hard information about the sponsorship of the puwalu by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, Environment Hawai`i submitted a formal Freedom of Information Act request to the council. The request did not ask … Continued
This article has been corrected. In the original story, Environment Hawai`i printed a misstatement that `aha kiole meetings had been held in O`ahu’s Ko`olaupoko district. For more than a year, environmental and native Hawaiian activists have accused the Ho`ohanohano I … Continued
Honolulu doesn’t even make the list of the nation’s top 10 ports when it comes to the volume of fish landed, but the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council leads the way when it comes to dollars hauled in. According to … Continued
In partial response to a Freedom-of-Information-Act request by Environment Hawai`i filed last November, the National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Regional Office in March delivered 254 pages of records relating to Western Pacific Fishery Management Council activities. This is the … Continued
For the second time, Congress has decided to compensate bottomfish and lobster fishers for financial losses associated with federal regulations that limit commercial fishing opportunities in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In January, President George Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, … Continued
Tale of Two Cities: Naples, Italy, once famous for its breathtaking beauty, has become infamous of late for its trash, which is breathtaking in an altogether different sense. In March, tests confirmed that the water-buffalo mozzarella produced in dairies outside … Continued
Outwardly, Pu`u Wa`awa`a has not changed much in the last century or so. The furrowed cinder cone once known as Muffin Hill remains one of the most prominent landmarks in North Kona. Even in dry times, the vegetation in the … Continued
How is climate change going to affect Hawai`i? Little by little, scientists here and abroad are tackling that question. A lot has already been done, from Chip Fletcher’s work on coastal erosion and flooding in Honolulu to Dennis LaPointe’s, Carter … Continued
“We’re bringing coals to Newcastle.” That’s how Don Thomas, a geochemist with the University of Hawai`i’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, described recent findings in a presentation to the state Commission on Water Resource Management last March. Thomas’ Hawai`i Scientific … Continued