Environmental activists are crying foul over proposed new language that would hamstring conservation efforts while green-lighting development.

The Hawaiʻi Ratepayer Protection Act empowers the PUC to set strong, well-informed policies and encourages the utility to ensure clean energy for all of Hawaiʻi’s residents at reduced electrical rates.

Next steps include development of a recovery plan, which will be bolstered by input from other federal and state agencies, other conservation partners and the public.

The complaint accuses the state agency of failing to execute its duties by approving agrochemical industry permits without adequate environmental review.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society president and mālama Honua advocate speaks of the challenges ahead and the hope he has witnessed in people around the world during Hōkūleʻa's worldwide voyage.

Concerned residents and elected officials call for drinking water resources to be better protected from fuel leaks.

Thirty-nine plant and 10 animal species have been added to list of endangered species in Hawaiʻi.

Hawaiʻi residents call on Hawaii Gas to drop Liquified Natural Gas as part of a global movement to "break free" from fossil fuels.

Electrical transformers on land co-owned by the Coast Guard and a state agency left toxic PCB chemicals in the soil that threaten the health of the community.

The nonprofit says that the proposed program fails to live up to lawmakers’ vision for dramatically expanding access to clean energy in Hawaiʻi.

The environmental justice nonprofit says the Navy-EPA agreement to retrofit and monitor the historically leaky fuel tanks near Pearl Harbor is inadequate.

Senator Thielen says the final agreement with the U.S. Navy does not take strong enough action to minimize the threat of future fuel leaks at Red Hill.

Eighteen state lawmakers sent a joint letter to state and federal regulatory agencies insisting the “real danger” of contamination to drinking water not be ignored.

The Mauna Kea Visitors Center is also closed until further notice.

Resident concern grows over asphalt, debris and water flow impacts to the East Oʻahu valley.

The ban would include electronic smoking devices and betel nut products as well.