HONOLULU, Hawai’i, March 12, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday designated 119,326 acres as protected critical habitat for 11 plants and a Hawaiian picture-wing fly found […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is receiving more than $100 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand recycling infrastructure and waste management systems across the country. These funds will be EPA’s largest recycling investment in 30 years. […]
KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 25, 2023 (ENS) – Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Maui Electric Co., Thursday, alleging civil damages from the deadly August 8 fires in Lahaina. The lawsuit claims that Hawaiian Electric’s energized and downed power lines sparked three different fires by igniting dry grass and brush in the hills above Lahaina and elsewhere in Upcountry Maui. […]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Governor Josh Green, M.D., and First Lady Jaime Kanani Green accompanied President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, members of the Hawaii Congressional delegation and others, on an assessment of the wildfire damage to Lahaina Monday. […]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 16, 2023 (ENS) – At least 106 people have died in the flames that consumed the historic town of Lahaina and other parts of Maui, and hundreds of people are still missing a week after the wildfires broke out, the Maui Police Department reported Tuesday. […]
LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 13, 2023 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Maui County officials said today that the fire death toll from this week’s wildfires in the historic town of Lahaina has risen to 93 people; search and rescue work continues. Many others have been injured, and at least 11,000 residents have lost their homes or businesses. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 19, 2022 (ENS) – President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill to avert a federal shutdown that funds the government, but only through March 11. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – A tsunami advisory was issued across the Pacific for the coasts of Australia, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington after an undersea volcano erupted Friday night in the Tonga Islands, sending huge tsunami waves breaking onshore and people scrambling to higher ground. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, December 9, 2021 (ENS) – Hawaii’s entire Congressional delegation is calling on Governor David Ige to request that President Joe Biden declare an emergency and direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in and assist with a water contamination crisis on Oahu. […]
KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, December 9, 2021 (ENS) – An ambitious effort to rescue four tiny birds deep in a thick Hawaiian rainforest saw its first taste of success last weekend, […]
By Benjamin Seidman NEWPORT, Oregon, December 4, 2021 (ENS) – On the central Oregon coast, a first-of-its-kind $80 million wave energy testing facility is under construction. “This is the first […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 6, 2021 (ENS) – The County of Maui has lost another court ruling in its campaign to avoid getting a Clean Water Act permit for injection wells […]
WASHINGTON, DC, September 29, 2021 (ENS) – Endangered Species Act protections came too late for 23 species that will be removed from the Endangered Species List because they are already beyond recovery, under a new U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proposal. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 16, 2021 (ENS) – U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to head a Cabinet agency, allowed her emotions to show Monday as she announced […]
KAUNAKAKAI, Moloka’i, Hawaii, January 13, 2021 (ENS) – In the Hawaiian Islands, the past year was plagued with travel and gathering limitations due to COVID-19, yet The Nature Conservancy’s Hawaii Chapter and partners were able to remove more than 46,000 pounds of marine debris from Moloka’i’s remote beaches in the last quarter of 2020 alone. […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 9, 2020 (ENS) – When marine predators themselves face mortal threats, researchers at the University of British Columbia studying orca deaths in Pacific Ocean waters believe that human tampering with the ocean is to blame. […]
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