(Posted 1/14/08) The nation’s premier professional association for ecologists, the Ecological Society of America, has weighed in with a statement on biofuels that urges policy-makers and planners to go slow in converting lands to biofuel crops. “Supplying the emerging biofuels industry … Continued
(Posted 11/2/07) In all the recent coverage of the Hawai`i Superferry, little has been said about a troubled sister ship that briefly plied the waters of Lake Ontario. Here are some of the facts about its short-lived service between Toronto … Continued
(Posted 11/1/07) Dibromochloropropane, a nasty pesticide that continues to lurk in Hawai`i’s aquifers long after the pineapple fields have gone fallow, was used throughout Central America as well – and with consequences equally disastrous. In November, a Los Angeles jury … Continued
(POSTED 6/11/07) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released for public comment a report that concludes there is little risk of a terrorist attack on the proposed Honolulu irradiator jeopardizing public health or the environment. The document is an appendix to … Continued
(POSTED 4/26/07) The lease of 10 acres of state land to Venu Pasupuleti, an Ohio entrepreneur, moved forward last month when the board of directors of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority voted 6-3 to approve a set of … Continued
(POSTED 4/18/07) The Hawai`i Campaign Spending Commission went along with the recommendation of its staff and, in a vote November 13, effectively overturned a key element of Hawai`i election laws. Now, the voting public will no longer be able to … Continued
(POSTED 3/22/07) In 2006, the Department of Land and Natural Resources got a big bump in its budget and in its workforce. From an operating funds level of roughly $77 million in the 2005-2006 fiscal year, the department’s operating budget … Continued
(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
(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
(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