EMMA’S COLUMN
(POSTED 9/14/06) Emma Yuen, now is a graduate student at Stanford, weighs in with her latest reflections on Hawai`i. For the last three years, I have gone to college on the mainland, and have come home to Hawai`i only for … Continued
RATTED OUT!
(POSTED 9/14/06) The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a settlement with Kamehameha Schools stemming from an incident in which it gave pigs an accidental overdose of rat poison in an experiment intended to show the effectiveness of using helicopters to … Continued
AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR AIRPORT IRRADIATOR
(POSTED 5/3/06) Score one for Concerned Citizens of Honolulu. This is the group that last fall challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over its decision not to require preparation of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement for a Cobalt-60-fueled irradiation … Continued
NOTED WITH SADNESS
(POSTED 4/6/06) In recent months, Hawai`i has lost two important voices on behalf of rational environmental planning and liberal social causes: Martha Black and Astrid Monson. Both women were in their 90s. In recent years, declining health had removed them … Continued
FUELING THE FLEETS
(POSTED 3/3/06) Just how much oil does the fishing industry consume? According to a recent study, the world’s commercial fishing fleets collective burn as much fuel in a year as the entire country of the Netherlands – some 50 billion … Continued
IRRADIATOR HEARING
(POSTED 1/26/06) The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has granted the petition of Concerned Citizens of Honolulu for a hearing on an application submitted by Pa`ina Hawai`i to build a Cobalt-60 irradiator at the Honolulu International Airport. And that has … Continued
A CRITICAL AUDIT OF DLNR PROMTS STRATEGIC PLAN, SUMMARY REPORT
(POSTED 10/31/05) One of the first actions of Governor Linda Lingle was a hiring freeze. It wasn’t absolute. Executive departments could push paperwork through the Department of Budget and Finance, the fiscal overseers, and on to the governor’s office if … Continued
SUPREME COURT ISSUES DECSION IN `AINA LE`A CASE
The Hawai`i Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited decision in the `Aina Le`a case. For those needing a reminder, that case involves the development of about 1,000 acres of land near Waikoloa, in the Big Island district of South Kohala. … Continued
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