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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: Lingle’s potential veto list and a lawsuit for Maui’s water.

• Gov. Lingle yesterday announced her . None of the juiciest ones were related to land use or the environment, but there were a couple of lesser bills that could be vetoed:

• was put on the list because it “complicates the transfer of 999-year homestead leases.”
• could be vetoed because it “creates ambiguities in the law” related to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
• because it “violates the Hawaii State Constitution” by allowing the state to seize shark-feeding tour vessels.
• because it “revers(es) the state’s commitments to job creating businesses and their investors” by repealing the High-Tech Tax Credit eight months early.
• because it “discourages the use of public land for valid and necessary public purposes” by providing compensation for agricultural lessees who are kicked out.

• Earthjustice filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging Alexander and Baldwin’s on Maui. They say the project’s EIS failed to examine impacts on Na Wai Eha streams.

• A Pedestrian Master Plan is moving Kauai toward a . The Garden Island has a neat picture with the story.

• Local organizations are joining national demonstrations supporting clean energy, called Hands Across The Sand at Turtle Beach Saturday.

• The of a protecting children from exposure to lead dust from old paint. Sen. Jim Inhofe celebrates: “We won.”

• Brazil wants to of farm land in an effort to increase the country’s food security. Minister says he’s not a xenophobe, but resources are finite.

• A land deal in which Egypt’s largest developer wanted to build an was annulled today. The court said the project was not open to public bidding. The government official who OK’d the deal is under investigation.

• Oil execs to Obama:

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