For a while now the state’s commercial aquarium fishing trade has been looking pretty solid. Sure, earlier this year both houses of the Hawaii Legislature passed SB 1240, which would have gradually phased out new aquarium collecting permits, but Governor David Ige, following the strong recommendation from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources […]
Environmental groups sue Hawaii DOT over bright harbor, airport lights
Sometimes I’m amazed that any animals manage to survive in this monstrous machine called “civilization” that we humans have built for ourselves. Even constructions that seem completely innocent can wreak havoc on the other, less “evolved” species. I thought of all this last week when I got a news release from the environmental law firm […]
U.S. Navy agrees to limit underwater training in Hawaii, California waters to protect whales, dolphins
Looks like it’s no longer full steam ahead for the U.S. Navy when it comes to its military exercises in the Pacific, the nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice announced yesterday. In an historic federal court settlement, the Navy has agreed to limit its use mid-frequency sonar and explosive underwater demolitions during its military training exercises […]
Federal judge rules U.S. Navy Pacific training harms too many marine mammals
In a 66-page ruling handed down today, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Oki Mollway in Honolulu ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Services should not have approved the U.S. Navy’s training activities in the Pacific Ocean a couple years ago because they harm too many marine mammals. “The Navy and Fisheries Service had concluded that, over […]
EPA, Fish & Wildlife Service To Help Clean Up PCB Contamination At Tern Island
We’ve known for sometime that plastic garbage and refuse is wreaking havoc in the delicate ecosystem of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. But did you know birds and sealife there also have to contend with PCBs and lead from junk we buried there during and after World War II? For 37 years, the U.S. military buried highly […]
EPA, Fish & Wildlife Service To Help Clean Up PCB Contamination At Tern Island
We’ve known for sometime that plastic garbage and refuse is wreaking