Savannah Harriman-Pote
Senior Reporter, Climate & Energy, and Editor-at-LargeSavannah Harriman-Pote is HPR's Senior Reporter, Climate and Energy and Editor-at-Large. She is also the lead producer of HPR's first narrative podcast: This Is Our Hawaiʻi. Prior to that, she worked as a producer for The Conversation. She also produces Manu Minute in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. She was born and raised on Hawaiʻi Island, and she collects lava lamps.
Contact her at sharrimanpote@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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Department of Transportation Services Director Roger Morton says diesel prices have been trending up since roughly the start of this fiscal year, which began in July. -
One of Hawaiʻi Island’s geological marvels is no more. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park confirmed on Wednesday that the Hōlei Sea Arch has collapsed. -
State specialists say that the coqui frog infestation in Pālolo Valley is worsening despite containment efforts. -
The impact of Hawaiʻi Island’s disaster-packed year isn’t just evident in the landscape — it’s evident in the faces of the people who live here. -
While Oʻahu households have a relatively smaller carbon footprint compared to other residents in the country, the island may still fall short of state goals to lower greenhouse gas emissions. -
Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative says that revenue from its current electricity rates is not enough to cover rising wildfire mitigation costs. -
As Hawaiʻi County nears the state deadline to eliminate cesspools, the price tag for conversions keeps climbing. -
Last month ranks as the second wettest August in more than a century, according to the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal’s monthly report. -
For almost half a century, NOAA tracked the number of billion-dollar climate and weather disasters that occurred each year across the United States. That work was nearly halted by the Trump administration last year. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote reports on the effort to keep the work going and what the database shows about changing disasters. -
In 2025, city agencies used about 30 million more kilowatt-hours of electricity — enough to power about 500 homes for an entire year. Agency water use was also up by about half a million gallons per day.
