Hawai’i Today
Explore with us the current events, both global and local, that impact life in Hawai’i Today. “In depth” analysis of the challenges and potential solutions are addressed, with a focus on activating community solutions that will nurture and sustain a lifestyle unique to all who live in Hawai’i.
Editorial – Hawaii County’s Energy Future
Historically, Hawaii County government has been mostly absent on the subject of energy, leaving such matters to HECO (HELCO) and to state’s regulators and legislators. Most of the island’s mayors have historically had other agenda priorities that generally do not include energy. An exception to this policy path came when the island’s former mayor Billy […]
Fossil Fuel Propaganda and Lobbying, So Far Successful
(newly updated, originally published October 30th) ExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organizations when it comes to governments setting climate policies, according to research into the “prolific and highly sophisticated” lobbying ploys used by the fossil fuel industry. The biggest US oil companies, as well as American Petroleum Institute, a lobby group, were […]
White House, intelligence agencies, Pentagon warn…”Climate Change threatens global security”
As the United States and nations around the world struggle to blunt the effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather, sweeping assessments released Thursday by the White House, the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon conclude that climate change will exacerbate long-standing threats to global security. Together, the reports show a deepening concern within the […]
President Biden’s Climate Agenda is in Jeopardy, and that’s bad news for Hawaii’s clean energy reforms
Manchin Tells Biden He Strongly Opposes Clean Energy Legislation – The most powerful part of President Biden’s climate agenda — a program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy — will likely be dropped from the massive budget bill pending in Congress, according to congressional staffers […]