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The same industry backers are reappointed to Wespac for term after term while people who lean toward conservation are soon replaced.

The longtime leader of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has always done things her own way, for better or for worse.

The utility said it hopes to add 50,000 rooftop solar systems to the 90,000 already connected to the grid as part of that goal.

Sen. Brian Schatz is now in Glasgow, Scotland for the UN climate conference and to take part in bilateral climate discussions.

The council’s leaders have done everything they can to stop presidents from creating monuments in the Pacific. Members of Congress have put forward a way to curb the lobbying.

A step toward Gov. David Ige’s vow in September to plant, conserve or restore 100 million trees on the islands by 2030.

But the national park must also spend more to deal with the increase of visitors when volcanoes are active.

The agreement could serve as a model to help save Hawaii’s other endangered honeycreeper species, they said.

From paying people to attend meetings to pushing legislation and even publishing a book, the federal fisheries panel spent years trying to influence state policy.

A Civil Beat investigation into the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council shows its longtime director and loyal council members have for decades used questionable strategies to help commercial fishermen.