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: plans change for Molokai wind and dolphin doctors lose their first patient.

  • Hawaiian homestead land is out for the proposed First Wind project on Molokai. The with Molokai Ranch, according to the Molokai Dispatch.

  • A new dolphin emergency room at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Tuesday. Intensive care could not save a sick male striped dolphin, the Star-Advertiser reports.

  • Some 100 acres of land in the Kakaako waterfront area will be the subject of a [pdf] Thursday, KHON .

  • A poll released Tuesday shows Americans are with President Obama’s work on the Gulf oil spill as they were with former President W.’s handling of Hurricane Katrina. But they’re even more pissed at BP.

  • Obama’s Oval Office to convince Republicans to back the climate change bill, the AP reports. At this point, there’s not really anything he can say to change their minds on anything.

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