{"id":9402,"date":"2017-01-03T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.environment-hawaii.org\/?page_id=9402"},"modified":"2020-11-17T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:56:07","slug":"2017-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?page_id=9402","title":{"rendered":"2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January (Volume 27, Number 7)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9417\">Tempers Flare as TMT Contested Case\u00a0Closes Out Third Month of Hearings<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9415\">Board Talk: A&#038;B Holdovers, Wind Farm Contested Case, Ag Land Transfers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9413\">Proposed Budget for Whitmore Ag Hub Shifts Away From Land Acquisition<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9411\">NEW &#038; NOTEWORTHY: Iopa Seawall, Hu Honua, Water Security<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9409\">Tax Exemption for $165 Million Complex<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9407\">GEMS Costs of $13 Million a Year\u00a0Borne by Hawaiian Electric Ratepayers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9405\">Latest Proposal to Use GEMS Fund\u00a0Is Nixed by Public Utilities Commission<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9393\">January 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>February\u00a0(Volume 27, Number 8)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9471\">Data Gaps Confound Efforts to Limit\u00a0Harm to Bats Posed by Wind Farms<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9468\">Wind Farms to Fund \u2018Research Push\u2019\u00a0On Endangered Hawaiian Hoary Bats<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9466\">East Maui Stream Flow Case Reopens;\u00a0Parties Debate Evidentiary Standards<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9464\">TMT Opponents Present Case\u00a0As Hearing Enters Fifth Month<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9462\">TMT Contested Case Hearing\u00a0Costs State Thousands per Day<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9459\">Parting the Curtain on Whales And Dolphins in Hawaiian Waters<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9449\">February 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>March\u00a0(Volume 27, Number 9)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=13756\">New Report Suggests Sea Level Rise May Be Worse than Previously Thought<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9515\">March 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9519\">New &#038; Noteworthy: Kona Remediation, Reef Fish Census<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9521\">`Aina Le`a Update: A Settlement, An Overdue Note, and a Possible Suitor<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9524\">Hawai`i County Takes Renewed Interest in Keaukaha Seawall After DLNR Signs Off<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9526\">TMT Hearing: Protesters&#8217; Witnesses Speak to Hawaiian Culture, Practices<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9531\">Bills Facilitating Shoreline Easements Fail For Fifth Year at Legislature<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9535\">Board Talk: Board Reconsiders Granting\u00a0Rent Discount to Non-Profits<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>April\u00a0(Volume 27, Number 10)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9614\">State, Federal Agencies Try Again\u00a0To Rid Lehua Island of Rodents<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9611\">Despite Non-Target Fatalities,\u00a0Wildlife on Palmyra Rebounds<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9608\">Feds Plan to Revise, Expand Plan\u00a0To Cover Rodent Control in Hawai`i<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9605\">NEW &#038; NOTEWORTHY: Biogas, Kaua`i Springs, and More<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9603\">`Aina Le`a Makes $200 Million Claim\u00a0Against State Over Stalled Development<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9601\">Water Commission Denies NPS Petition\u00a0To Designate Keauhou Aquifer System<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9597\">Environment Hawai`i Article Used to Show\u00a0Apparent Rift Among Opponents of TMT<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9595\">The Testimony Has Concluded, But\u00a0The TMT Proceeding Is Far From Over<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9592\">Near Close of TMT Contested Case,\u00a0Witness Says EIS Process Was Flawed<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9586\">April 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>May\u00a0(Volume 27, Number 11)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9671\">New &#038; Noteworthy: `Aina Le`a, TMT, Dole Lands<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9669\">Bill Intended to Alter GEMS Program,\u00a0Reduce Oversight, On Brink of Passage<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9664\">GEMS Reporting Requirements May Disappear If HGIA Has Its Way<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9657\">Under House Bill 957, DOE Would Get Millions in Interest-Free GEMS Loan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9655\">GEMS Administrator Anticipates On-Bill Loan Financing This Year<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9648\">Supreme Court Grills Parties In Aquarium Fish Permit Case<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9645\">Kaua\u2018i Utility, Agriculture Groups Commit To Restoring, Monitoring Diverted Streams<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9642\">State Prevails in Preliminary Round Of Ma\u2018alaea Condemnation Proceeding<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9639\">Board Talk: Koke`e Squatter, Ha`ena Agreement, Ahi Farm<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9632\">May 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>June\u00a0(Volume 27, Number 12)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9744\">$1 Million Settlement of `Aina Le`a Case\u00a0Is Rejected in Final Days of Legislature<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9714\">June 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9718\">Board Talk: Kekaha Kai Park, Forest Reserve Rules, Airport Facility<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9723\">Hawaiian Electric Revives Renewable Projects\u00a0It Cancelled While NextEra Deal Was Pending<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9726\">Legacy Land Conservation Program\u00a0Celebrates A Decade of Protection<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9730\">Water Security Advisory Group Selects\u00a011 Projects to Receive $600,000 in Grants<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9738\">NEW &#038; NOTEWORTHY: Kaua`i Springs, Iopa Seawall, TMT<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9741\">Hawai`i County Lists Violations\u00a0At `Aina Le`a Site, Proposes Rezoning<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>July (Volume 28, Number 1)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9770\">Fisheries Council Staff Envisions Return\u00a0Of Commercial Bottomfishing to NWHI<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9772\">Kahala Hotel Beach Weddings\u00a0Not Sanctioned by DLNR Permit<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9775\">As Its Creditors Close In, `Aina Le`a\u00a0Files for Bankruptcy Court Protection<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9777\">New &#038; Noteworthy: Lehua Rat Project, GEMS<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9779\">Board Talk: Legacy Lands, Lava Tours, and Much More<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9764\">July 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>August\u00a0(Volume 28, Number 2)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9803\">August 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9809\">NEW &#038; NOTEWORTHY: Pepe`ekeo Access, Hu Honua, and a Rememberance<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9811\">Few Environmental Measures Approved\u00a0At Close of 2017 Legislative Session<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9813\">Appellate Court Ruling Gives Teeth\u00a0To Hawai`i County Development Plans<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9807\">Board Talk: Unpaid Lease, Lehua Island, Haleakala Trail and More<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9815\">At Annual Hilo Confab, Lots of Fast Talk\u00a0On Recent Trends in Resource Science\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>September\u00a0(Volume 28, Number 3)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9886\">Arbiter in Maui Water Case Gives Weight To A&#038;B\u2019s Tentative Diversified Ag Plan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9884\">Once More, Green Infrastructure Agency\u00a0Is Attempting to Remove PUC Oversight<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9882\">HGIA Disses &#8216;Clean Energy Advocates&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9880\">Who Pays the Vig on DOE Loan?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9875\">Board Talk: Flooding, Erosion, and Legacy Lands<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9873\">NARS Commission Grants Permit For Ecological Station at Pu\u2018u Maka\u2018ala<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9867\">Department of Ag Stalls, But Finally Yields\u00a0On Permit For Lehua Rodenticide Drop<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9861\">New &#038; Noteworthy: Hu Honua, Bigeye Tuna Limit<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9854\">September 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>October\u00a0(Volume 28, Number 4)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9999\">New &#038; Noteworthy: American Samoa, Waiea Tract, Correction<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9975\">October 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9984\">Native Hawaiians, Conservationists Balk At Reserving Stream Water for HC&#038;S Plan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9986\">New Stock Assessment Models Suggest Bigeye Tuna May No Longer Be Overfished<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9989\">Revised Shoreline Setback Ordinance Is a Step Backward, Says Kaua\u2018i Activist<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9991\">Fish Collectors, Claiming Property Rights, Now Ask Court to Let Them Intervene<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9993\">Supreme Court Definitively Rejects Lower Court Rulings in Aquarium Case<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=9996\">Whatever Happened To &#8230; The Ha\u2018ena Sandbag Revetment?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>November\u00a0(Volume 28, Number 5)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10020\">November 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10030\">Swordfish, Bigeye Catches Remain High Despite Expansion of Marine Monument<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10032\">Council Seeks to Nearly Double Annual Bigeye Tuna Quota\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10036\">Kaua`i Shorelines: Setback Bill, Ha`ena Revetment<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10041\">After Attempt to Force His Hand, Judge Rules That Aquarium Collecting Permits Are Invalid<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10044\">New &#038; Noteworthy: `Aina Le`a, Kona Spaceport<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10046\">Supreme Court Rejects Takings Claim Of Landowner Against Maui County<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10034\">Council Seeks To End Hard Caps On Swordfish Fleet\u2019s Turtle Takes<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10028\">Circuit Court Dismisses Appeal Of Kaloi Gulch Permit\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10026\">Green Infrastructure Authority Seeks Special Ruling for Kalihi Shelter Village\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10023\">Board Talk: DOBOR Rules, Wind Farm SEIS<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>December\u00a0(Volume 28, Number 6)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10079\">December 2017 PDF<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10084\">New &#038; Noteworthy: Aquarium Collection, Maha`ulepu Cases<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10086\">Green Infrastructure Agency Told\u00a0To Pay Back Public Benefits Fee<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10088\">Simmering Dispute Over Access\u00a0At Pepe`ekeo Boils Over at Hearing<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10091\">Board Talk: Protestors Removed, Ka\u2018u Violator Fined, &#038; Maui Water Permits Granted<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=10097\">Wind Farm Plan to Protect Rare Bats Is Inadequate, Hearing Officer Finds<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January (Volume 27, Number 7) February&nbsp;(Volume 27, Number 8) March&nbsp;(Volume 27, Number 9) April&nbsp;(Volume 27, Number 10) May&nbsp;(Volume 27, Number 11) June&nbsp;(Volume 27, Number 12) July (Volume 28, Number 1) August&nbsp;(Volume 28, Number 2) September&nbsp;(Volume 28, Number 3) October&nbsp;(Volume 28, &hellip; 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