For weeks, workers with the help of an excavator have stacked large sandbags along a public beach in Kapaa to protect a Balinese-style vacation rental from being ravaged by the ocean. Read more
Former Hawaii Attorney General Margery Bronster has paired up with a mainland firm to seek compensation for Navy water users, marking the latest legal action taken in response to the Navy’s Red Hill water contamination saga. Read more
A water sample collected following a flushing operation at the Aliamanu Military Reservation, home to military families, detected petroleum hydrocarbons that were more than three times the state’s acceptable limit. Read more
The community, which includes about 1,400 homes, had been told that it wasn’t on the Navy’s water system, which turned out to be false. Read more
The survey is available to residents who live in neighborhoods in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that are on the Navy’s water system, as well as people who work in the area, and parents who send their children to the area’s schools. Read more
The figure includes patients who tested positive for the coronavirus during inpatient screenings, but were admitted to the hospital for other reasons. Read more
A team of public health workers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun surveying civilians affected by petroleum contamination in the Navy’s drinking water system that serves Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and its surrounding neighborhoods. Read more
U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz and Reps. Kai Kahele and Ed Case issued a joint statement today emphasizing the importance of safeguarding Oahu’s aquifer that supplies the island with drinking water. Read more
The Navy has been fighting the Dec. 6 order through an administrative hearing process that culminated today with a final decision that upheld the emergency order in its entirety. Read more
The Navy has been fighting the Dec. 6 emergency order through an administrative hearing process that culminated today with a final decision upholding the order in its entirety. Read more
The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says isn’t sure if it will ever be able to reopen three drinking water wells it shut down to avoid the chance jet fuel spilled by the Navy might contaminate its system. Read more
The Navy has been scrambling to contain the political and regulatory fallout from its water contamination crisis since confirming that jet fuel had polluted its Red Hill drinking water shaft in late November. Read more
Top Navy officials told state lawmakers Wednesday that they should be finished flushing their water distribution system by the end of January and that some military families who were displaced by petroleum contamination in their tap water could begin moving home as soon as late next week. Read more
The Navy is continuing its fight against a state order to drain its Red Hill fuel tanks and suspend fueling operations until the Hawaii Department of Health is satisfied the facility can be operated safely. Read more
The Navy on Wednesday filed 43-pages of objections to a recent decision by a hearing officer that the Department of Health’s emergency order relating to its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility be upheld. Read more
Early treatment options for COVID-19 have become increasingly promising as a means to keep people at high risk of developing severe illness out of the hospital and from dying, but their availability in Hawaii is in short supply. Read more
The Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility is a “ticking time bomb” that poses an imminent peril to human health and the environment, according to a state Department of Health hearings officer. Read more
A top official with the Department of the Navy has apologized to Hawaii residents for comments made during a contested case hearing last week on the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility. Read more
The fuel facility presents an imminent peril to human health and the environment, according to the officer overseeing a contested case hearing. Read more
The head of Honolulu’s Board of Water Supply has asked President Joe Biden to intervene in the ongoing water pollution crisis that has affected the Navy’s drinking water system, warning that further petroleum contamination of Oahu’s aquifer will have “devastating effects that could take decades to resolve.” Read more
Hawaii Congressman Kai Kahele is urging a top Navy official to publicly apologize for “insulting and offensive comments” he made during a hearing this week on the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility, which is believed to be the source of petroleum contamination in the Navy’s drinking water system. Read more
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