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Former DuPont Worker Claims Retaliation For Pesticide Complaints Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Former DuPont Worker Claims Retaliation For Pesticide Complaints

A woman files suit saying she lost her job after repeatedly reporting misuse of pesticides on the company’s North Shore farm.

Trump’s Review Of National Monuments Panned In Public Comments James Watt

Trump’s Review Of National Monuments Panned In Public Comments

The government is accepting input on the reconsideration of protections at 29 monuments, including Papahanaumokuakea.

Committee Proposes Fee, But Balks At Total Ban On Plastic Bags Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Committee Proposes Fee, But Balks At Total Ban On Plastic Bags

Environmentalists who once supported a Honolulu City Council bag bill, now say that聽the amended version doesn’t go far enough.

Trump May Try, But Only Congress Can Undo National Monuments UNESCO via Wikimedia Commons

Trump May Try, But Only Congress Can Undo National Monuments

While presidents can create the preserves, they do not have the authority to downsize them, despite a recent executive order.

Battle Lines Are Reforming In Hawaii Over Papahanaumokuakea U.S. Department of the Interior

Battle Lines Are Reforming In Hawaii Over Papahanaumokuakea

Obama’s massive expansion of the national monument was divisive in the islands. Trump’s review will be equally so.

Honolulu March For Science Draws Nearly 1,000 Protestors Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Honolulu March For Science Draws Nearly 1,000 Protestors

As part of protests across the country, the crowd marched from the University of Hawaii to Moiliili Park Saturday in opposition to Trump administration policies.

Deal Reached In Dispute Over Waimea River Water Diversion Courtesy: John Rusk/Flickr

Deal Reached In Dispute Over Waimea River Water Diversion

A 4-year-old case ends in an agreement to restore water for Hawaiians, renewable energy, agriculture and the environment.

The Fight Over Papahanaumokuakea Just Escalated Courtesy: Wespac

The Fight Over Papahanaumokuakea Just Escalated

It’s not just Wespac that’s lobbying President Trump to undo marine monument protections in the Pacific.

100,000 Pounds Of Debris Hauled Out Of Papahanaumokuakea Courtesy: NOAA

100,000 Pounds Of Debris Hauled Out Of Papahanaumokuakea

The marine junk from the reefs and shores of Midway and Kure atolls was brought to Honolulu, where it will be incinerated.

Will Popular Big Island Trail Someday Get Toilets? Flikr.com/Forest and Kim Starr

Will Popular Big Island Trail Someday Get Toilets?

Big Island activists have for years unsuccessfully prodded officials to install toilets on the ancient Kaawaloa trail to the Captain Cook Monument.