Ever since the state Environmental Council decided last August to stop meeting until the Lingle administration provided the funding and manpower necessary for the council to function properly, several government agencies have been stuck awaiting approval of revisions to their … Continued
A Trail Lost, and Found: Seventy-five years ago, folks on Maui traveled a brand new road to get to the summit of Haleakala. That highway, improved substantially in the intervening years, remains the route of choice for the thousands of tourists … Continued
What you are holding in your hands is the 240th issue of Environment Hawai`i. It represents the completion of our 20th year of continuous publication. Think of it. Twenty years, an entire generation, of grinding out a monthly newsletter. Few publications make … Continued
A thousand dollars a day. That’s roughly what the state has been spending for the last eight years for rent on a vacant one-acre lot at Ma`alaea Harbor, more than double the original lease rent of $150,400 negotiated in 1994. … Continued
After all the evidence and expert testimony presented during the Na Wai `Eha contested-case hearings in 2007 and 2008 on the minimum flows necessary to protect stream habitats and other instream values, which numbers did the state Commission on Water … Continued
If they dream – and who is to say they don’t? – Hawaiian gobies (o`opu) would certainly dream of free-flowing streams, of cool riffles and shaded, still pools. This, after all, is the habitat in which they evolved over millennia. … Continued
Earthjustice attorneys have sued the Maui Department of Water Supply over its acceptance of a final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a plant that would treat surface water collected from Central Maui streams and pipe it into the DWS system, … Continued
Leaving a few East Maui streams largely intact when Central Maui is wet, but robbing them of all but thin, sometimes disconnected, ribbons of water when it’s dry does not, in commissioner Lawrence Miike’s eyes, meet the state Commission … Continued
Former state Department of Health director Lawrence Miike, a physician and a lawyer, is the longest-serving member of the state Commission on Water Resource Management and was the lone dissenter in the commission’s recent decisions to amend the interim … Continued
When it comes to marine mammals in the Pacific, there is no shortage of crises. Tour operations are rousing spinner dolphins from their rest, fishing gear is hooking and entangling whales, and young monk seals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands … Continued