Hawai’i so far does not have the kind of air pollution that triggers federal response (withholding of highway funds; restrictions on new industry and the like). But there are some disturbing indications that air quality will deteriorate in the future … Continued
Strong quarantine enforcement is a critical part in the overall attempt to protect Hawai`i’s endemic species. Passage of Senate Bill 2382, then, has to be ranked as a major accomplishment of the 1990 legislative session. Most of the bill was … Continued
Also known as H.B. 3149, this began as a measure that, by defining non-structural commercial uses of shorelines as not being development, would have exempted such uses from county regulation under the Coastal Zone Management Act (chapter 205A of Hawaii … Continued
House Bill 2217 should have passed easily. It would have opened up to public comment agency decisions that proposed projects have no significant environmental impact – the so-called “Negative Declarations.” At present, public comment is limited to those projects for … Continued
Who knows if the full story of Senate Bill 667 will ever be known? But what happened to the bill in the 1989 legislative session set the stage for many of the problems that occurred this past session. The animosity … Continued
With all the attention recycling has received, you might have thought a bill providing for sensible solid waste management would have made it through to the finish line. Guess again. The bill – H.B. 2181 and its companion in the … Continued
The operation of charter boats along the North Shore of Kaua`i began, by most accounts, in the mid-1970s. Tom Hegarty, a charter boat operator, has said he started carrying passengers for hire in 1975. Clancy Greff, whose nom de mer … Continued
For the last 14 years, public officials in Hawai`i have talked a lot about controlling boating activity on Kaua`i’s North Shore. They have drawn up plans for regulating boaters through bids and concessions. They have jawed on about carrying capacities … Continued
More than anyone else, Clancy Greff has set the standard for what most people have come to think of as the way to see Kaua`i’s Na Pali Coast. From Ha`ena, passengers are loaded into customized rubber rafts and taken up … Continued