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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 means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: a coastal path on Kauai needs land, Big Island’s hydrogen-bus future and bad news from the Gulf of Mexico (again).

• Kauai’s county government is set to to make way for its 17-mile coastal path, The Garden Island reports. I’ll be looking at the potential property demands of the Honolulu rail project soon, too.
• Over at the Ha Ha Ha blog, Richard Ha writes about a future with geothermal electricity, , fueling Big Island municipal buses. Pretty wild!
• The latest British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have hit a “snag” as the diamond-tipped saw that was supposed to be cutting the damaged pipe has become lodged in it instead, the New York Times reports.
• In Montana, the Obama administration is touting efforts to preserve open spaces as part of its new “.” They urge a “bottom-up” approach that will only kick in federal funds after there is widespread community support.
• And to end the links with a laugh, here’s some great green : “New eco-friendly cigarettes kill destructive human beings over time.”

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