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Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that mean something for us here in Hawaii. Today’s best: public land without public access, trails so busy they can’t be maintained and environmentalists’ scheme to cause the oil spill.

• Beaches are public land, but to the shores below the old Papaikou sugar mill. A Big Island planner tells the Hawaii Tribune-Herald that it’s illegal to cross private property, even if there is no other route.
• Solar panel installers complain to the Honolulu Advertiser that they’re losing business amid after state Tax Department tried to stop abuse.
• , but the Advertiser today reports that this past wet season season was of the past 55 years.
• Each year, 500,000 hikers clog the first two miles of Kauai’s once-idyllic Kalalau Trail, making volunteer .
• A to the American Power Act — aka the Senate’s new climate change bill. One prevailing question from many camps: Is it even worth the effort to pass it this year?
• Senators from California, Oregon and Washington this week proposed a for oil off the Pacific coast. They don’t specifically mention Hawaii, but then again, maybe they don’t have to.
• In other spill-related news: A new poll shows that 10 percent of Americans believe the Deepwater Horizon rig, leading to the explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of a scheme to demonize offshore drilling. Really?

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