Judge Rules that Developer Cannot Separately Evaluate Projects Comprising the Remaining 135 Acres of Wailea Hoʻoponopono o Mākena, Maui Tomorrow Foundation, and Sierra Club of Hawai‘i prevailed today in their lawsuit in Maui’s Environmental Court. Maui Circuit Court Judge Kirstin M. Hamman invalidated the Maui Planning Commission’s approval of an environmental assessment for the Wailea […]
LUC Rejects Olowalu Town FEIS
Maui Tomorrow was in attendance at yesterday’s LUC hearing on the proposed Olowalu Town. It was the latest of three long hearing days spent on this matter, and we appreciate the time put in by concerned citizens, who waited through 10 hours of testimony yesterday before they got a one-minute chance to testify. We also […]
EarthJustice gets court to restrict sonar in whale areas
For the first time ever, the U.S. Navy has agreed to put vast swaths of important habitat for numerous marine mammals off limits to dangerous mid-frequency sonar training and testing and the use of powerful explosives.
Hawaii Environmental Court Starts July 1
Hawaii will be the second state to have an environmental court on July 1. The Hawaii Supreme Court chief justice will choose environmental judges for each area who will hear all the cases involving cases in historic preservation, litter control, recycling, solid waste, safe drinking water, air pollution, environmental impact statements and more.
HC&S Cited for Mill Emissions
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH NEIL ABERCROMBIE, GOVERNOR LINDA ROSEN, MD, MPH. DIRECTOR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2014 DOH CITES HAWAIIAN COMMERCIAL & SUGAR COMPANY FOR VIOLATIONS OF AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS HONOLULU- The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) Clean Air Branch has issued a Notice and Finding of Violation and Order (NFVO) to Hawaiian Commercial […]
Federal Court Rules That Maui County Is Violating Clean Water Act
County subject to millions in penalties for illegal discharges from Lahaina injection wells Honolulu – On Friday, May 30, 2014, the federal district court in Honolulu ruled that Maui County’s use of injection wells at its Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility violates the federal Clean Water Act. The court concluded that most of the three to […]