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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: Trash plan hits a snag and Rim-Pac worries environmentalists.

• Honolulu’s plan to send garbage to the mainland just as a load is readied, according to the Star-Advertiser.

• Rim of the Pacific military summit has , according to The Garden Island. In 2004, sonar exercises forced 200 melon-headed whales into Hanalei Bay for more than 28 hours.

• Temperatures at Hawaii’s higher elevations are , the Associated Press reports. Civil Beat previously covered Friday’s climate change meeting.

• The Hawaii Department of Health is still reviewing a plan to discharge into the ocean off West Kauai every day, The Garden Island reports.

• Kauai representatives are that bans vegetating the beach and preserves public access.

• Tonight, Sunset Beach will become the first community to preview the maps.

• One Expert estimates that there are of plastic in the oceans right now.

• New York has great tap water, so why did the city spend last year?

• An that the U.S. Department of Energy is struggling to implement efficient lights.

• Politics are still trumping science despite President Barack that he’d reverse Bush administration policies.

• After three months of failures, BP says it’s on the verge of that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the sea, the New York Daily News reports today.

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