COME TO OUR FLATBREAD PIZZA FUNDRAISER TUESDAY, DEC. THE 19TH! Help us reach our end of year fundraising goal – come buy some pizza at Flatbread Company, Maui in Pa’ia between 4-10 pm, and we’ll get a portion of every sale – take out or eat in! We’ll also have a great silent auction with items from Historic Iao Theater Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort and more! Come get … Read more
Update: The #OxybenzoneFreeMaui bill has passed first reading! On Friday, December 1st, 2017, the Maui County Council listened to testimony for about 10 hours on multiple issues, including the oxybenzone bill, the sand mining bill (both up for 1st reading), and a new legislative item introduced by Council Chair Mike White regarding giving council members the ability to fire another council member’s executive assistant with a simple majority vote. The meeting was scheduled to reconvene on … Read more
This testimony action has now ended. Maui County could be the first in the world to pass legislation phasing out the sale and use of oxybenzone and octinoxate-based sunscreens! Oxybenzone and octinoxate, two of the most common active ingredients in chemical sunscreens, are scientifically proven coral killers. We need to do everything we can to protect our reefs and the organisms that live off them. In December 2017, Maui County’s Council will vote on … Read more
Today, November 9, 2017, the State’s Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) voted 5-0 to once again renew Alexander & Baldwin and East Maui Irrigation, Co.ʻs 1 year revocable permits for 2018, which allow them to take up to 80 million gallons of water a day from East Mauiʻs streams. The five members present were Keone Downing, Stan Roehrig, Thomas Oi, Suzanne Case, and Chris Yuen. The Land Board virtually ignored the testimony of … Read more
Come this Monday, November 13th, 2017 at 1:30 to Maui Council Chambers (200 S. High St. 8th floor) to learn about the toxic sunscreen chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate, which are killing our reefs. Dr. Craig Downs and Joe DiNardo will be giving presentations on the science behind these killer chemicals. Agenda: https://mauicounty.legistar.com/View.ashx… #oxybenzonefreemaui #killersunscreen #notreefsafe County of Maui#coralreef
Take Action by Wednesday, November 8th, 2017! Once again, A&B is trying to get a one-year permit to continue diverting water from East Maui streams, with no oversight and no analysis of how these diversions continue to hurt East Maui’s residents and environment. Click here to submit your testimony against any rubber-stamping of these permits. [link deactivated because action finished] The Board of Land and Natural Resources is meeting Thursday morning on O’ahu – so … Read more
October 2017 Moratorium Updates On the morning of Sept. 18th, IEM members Mike White, Yuki Lei Sugimura, and Riki Hokama announced they would not make the meeting, and so there was no quorum. The meeting went ahead with a GPS presentation demonstrating the exact areas where the moratorium would cover. Because there was no quorum, a vote on the moratorium was deferred. Absence of 3 council members prevents vote The moratorium (officially IEM item … Read more