Protecting and Preserving Maui Nui’s Environment & Important Cultural Sites for Over 40 Years

County Council: Expand Baldwin Beach

If you love Baldwin Beach: ask the County Council to “Expand the Park” as part of the County’s purchase of a separate site for a new County Service Center. Let Budget Committee Chairman White and committee members know that you support amending the County budget to purchase a Service Center site in the A&B Business park in Kahului. This site is convenient to major roads and includes a not-to-be-turned-down donation of 35.5 acres of Beach … Read more

Federal Court Rules That Maui County Is Violating Clean Water Act

County subject to millions in penalties for illegal discharges from Lahaina injection wells Honolulu – On Friday, May 30, 2014, the federal district court in Honolulu ruled that Maui County’s use of injection wells at its Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility violates the federal Clean Water Act.  The court concluded that most of the three to five million gallons of wastewater the County dumps into the wells each day flows through groundwater and emerges offshore of … Read more

Sierra Club Leads Protest Against Rooftop PV Limits

From KHON Solar power advocates rally against HECO gridlock By Taizo BradenUpdated: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 6:46 pmPublished: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 12:13 pm Related Coverage State orders Hawaiian Electric Companies to lower rates, connect more solar A group of rooftop solar advocates rallied downtown Wednesday morning to hold signs on Alakea St. and deliver a petition to the annual Hawaiian Electric (HECO) shareholder meeting. The petition, reportedly containing 5,000 signatures, calls on HECO to follow up … Read more

Dr. Tyrone Hayes on Syngenta

May 15-Maui, Wailuku, Henry Perrine Baldwin High School Auditorium, 6:30pm May 16-Molokai, Kaunakakai, Molokai Community Health Center, 6:00pm Hawai’i SEED today announced the state-wide speaking tour of world-renowned University of California Berkeley Professor of Integrative Biology Dr. Tyrone Hayes. Dr. Hayes will be joined by local food advocates from each island community. Paul Towers from Pesticide Action Network will be speaking as well, presenting an overview of pesticide use nationally and internationally and the significant … Read more

Na Wai Eha Streams Restored

From MauiNow By Wendy Osher More water will be returned to streams of N? Wai ?Eh?, particularly water in ??ao, under an agreement reached in the N? Wai ?Eh? contested case hearing, state officials announced today. The latest developments come after a decade-long battle over water rights and the health of the streams, with partial restoration of water ordered and implemented in 2010. The settlement establishes a new interim instream flow standard, or the minimum … Read more

PATH Press Release on Haleakala Trail Decision

On Wednesday, after a long fourteen day jury trial before Judge Cardoza in the Maui Circuit Court, a jury returned a verdict in favor of the State of Hawai‘i (State) and plaintiffs Public Access Trails Hawai‘i (PATH), David Brown, Ken Schmitt, and Joe Bertram III, who are the lead plaintiffs in a class action on behalf of all pedestrians in Hawai‘i. The jury found that the State owns—and has always owned—the historic Haleakala Trail. The … Read more