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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: candidates clash on oil drilling and Hawaiians fight to stop a Kauai bridge.

• Mufi Hannemann has questioned Neil Abercrombie’s support for removing a federal , pointing to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an example of the danger, according to the Star-Advertiser.
• Hawaiians fighting to stop the construction of a bridge across Kauai’s Wailua River yesterday, The Garden Island reports. Part of could have been with wooden stakes.
• A Hannemann proposal to restructure the Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund Commission was Wednesday.
• The Army never intended to remnants from Pohakuloa Training Area and Shofield Barracks, the Big Island Weekly reports.
• The state’s Natural Area Reserve System would under a proposal to incorporate most of the former Kulani Correctional Facility on the Big Island for research and species preservation.
• Land owned by a black Georgia community was to build an airstrip in 1942. Now, the elders want to know why they cannot have it back. (
• A lawsuit pitting has stalled $30 million in Property Assessed Clean Energy payments in California.
• A Dutch company has plans to construct “Recycled Island” with room for 500,000 residents from floating in the Pacific Ocean.
• Lastly, a Washington couple has over six months to pay for their wedding. (

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