President Joe Biden disaster declaration for hard-hit historic center Lahaina and other affected areas on Aug. 10 makes federal funds available for recovery, even as fires are not fully contained.
EPA has accepted for investigation an administrative complaint alleging the California State Water Resources Control Board discriminated against Native American tribes and other peoples.
There was a time in which Hawaii’s geographical latitude placed its coral reefs outside the zone of the type of climate-change-induced reef degradation happening in other parts of the world.
The funds are aimed at a battery of transportation needs including congestion relief, freight traffic accommodations and alternative fuels infrastructure.