In Anahola, Kaua`i, the county has been struggling to keep `Aliomanu Road passable for the better part of two decades. It has spent millions defending the road, now reduced to one lane, from scouring waves. In years to come, it … Continued
If planning were all it took to solve the problems of global warming, the state would be sitting pretty. The call for plans to address climate change goes back more than 40 years. In 1972, the federal Coastal Zone Management … Continued
Kaua`i Springs to Get High Court Hearing: The Hawai`i Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a Kaua`i water bottler from an Intermediate Court of Appeals decision last spring. The lower court had ruled on April 30 that the Kaua`i County … Continued
Fourteen years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency banned large-capacity cesspools. Under the EPA’s definition, an LCC (as the agency terms it) is any shallow injection well that receives sanitary waste from one or more buildings visited by 20 or more … Continued
In October of 2011, Governor Neil Abercrombie received a letter from Cheryl Vasconcellos, seeking his help “to overcome some bureaucratic red tape… Hana Health would like to renovate and/or construct new buildings and improve services … as well as remove … Continued
What if you threw a party with no food? In Hawai`i, that is simply unthinkable. Yet, if the federal government’s response to our repeated requests for information about a party thrown by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Wespac) last … Continued
False Killer Whale Recovery Plan: The beginning of this month was the deadline to submit information to the National Marine Fisheries Service on a recovery plan for the endangered insular stock of Hawaiian false killer whales. On October 2, the day … Continued
The relinquishment by the territorial government of a portion of a historic trail has come back to haunt residents of Hawai`i County. For centuries, the Ala Loa ran along the western coast of the Big Island. In 1938, however, a … Continued
The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing a change in fishing regulations that would make permanent what has been a year-to-year rule allowing Hawai`i-based longliners to exceed the annual catch limits on bigeye tuna imposed by the Western and Central … Continued
Callum Roberts. The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and The Sea. Viking Penguin (USA), 2013. 350 pages plus appendices, notes, and index. Callum Roberts is one of the world’s great fisheries biologists. More than that, he’s a terrific writer, capable … Continued