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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to inspect the Navy Red Hill fuel storage facility after it spilled petroleum and contaminated Pearl Harbor's drinking water late last year.

The Sierra Club says the Navy is not in compliance with a key aspect of a state emergency order on the Red Hill fuel storage depot. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, the Navy was required to submit documents to the state Department of Health last week on how it would safely defuel the facility.

Gov. Josh Green spoke to The Conversation about the joint response to Red Hill and the housing demands of displaced Maui families.

The defueling team at Red Hill reports it is ahead of schedule with no major issues. In a video statement released Thursday night, Navy Adm. John Wade provided an update on the draining of the Red Hill fuel tanks on Oʻahu.

The U.S. Navy released a third-party assessment of the Red Hill fuel storage facility Friday afternoon Hawaiʻi time. Local officials and stakeholders have been asking for the final report for months. The document appears to have been completed in April.

The U.S. Navy relieved the commanding officer of the Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center for Pearl Harbor on Monday in the wake of a fuel leak at the Red Hill fuel storage facility.

The state Health Department asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the community’s recovery in the wake of the fuel spill. The Conversation talked to Vidisha Parasram, who worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service fellow for the CDC in the year following the spill.

A draft report by the Red Hill Facility Task Force is urging the Navy to double line all of its underground fuel tanks in the next 10 years. But navy…

Attorneys for the U.S. Navy on Wednesday appealed Hawaiʻi's order to drain the Red Hill fuel tanks above Pearl Harbor, saying the state wrongly concluded the tanks posed an imminent threat that requires immediate action. The state Department of Health said it looked forward to taking its “fight to court.”

The U.S. Senate approved legislation Thursday to fund the federal government for the next several weeks, avoiding a shutdown. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, the measure allocates millions of dollars to the Red Hill water contamination crisis.