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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: Honolulu’s wastewater deal and faltering ethanal efforts.

• KHON reported over the weekend that the city was a wastewater lawsuit with the EPA, and today the Star-Advertiser that a deal is done.
• Ethanal efforts in Hawaii are ; only two ventures are still alive.
• Blogger Ian Lind has his eye on a Honolulu resolution that would for Clean Water and Natural Lands Commission members and give the mayor more direct control.
• Maui is moving forward with a contract to study the on Maalaea’s reefs.
• Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi has not yet fulfilled a campaign promise to create a for building permit applications.
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will take a year to determine if seven species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bees should be .
• A on Kauai’s North Shore is being opposed by not-in-my-backyard neighbors.
• Also on Kauai, an already-approved Safeway supermarket and shopping complex could , but split development into two phases.
• are patrolling a dangerous beach in Malibu. ()
• Interesting story in the New York Times Magazine about the includes a Big Island fish farmer.

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