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The U.S. Navy says a jet fuel spill at its Red Hill fuel farm on Oahu caused no environmental damage and didn't pose a risk to the area's drinking water,…

The Navy says it can defuel the Red Hill facility by July 2024, five months shorter than initially predicted earlier this summer. Some of the fuel currently sitting in pipes is expected to be removed next month. HPR's Sabrina Bodon reports.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Navy signed a new administrative consent order on Tuesday outlining conditions for the shutdown of the Red Hill fuel storage faculty.

The agency found traces of the forever chemicals known as PFAS in two wells that the military shut down following the discovery of fuel in its drinking water system in November 2021.

Red Hill open house might seem like an oxymoron to some. The event was not an actual welcome mat to the Navy's underground fuel storage facility that for so long was kept under wraps in the name of national security. But it did mean access to military personnel like never before to understand this chapter of Red Hill. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz has more.

The military has finished draining more than 104 million gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex on Oʻahu that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021. The task force will hand over responsibility for the tanks on Thursday to Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill.

Hawaiʻi lawmakers are calling on the Navy to decommission the Red Hill underground fuel tanks. A letter sent to the military signed by House members this week comes on the heels of Gov. David Ige’s order demanding the Navy suspend operations to reduce the risk to our aquifer. Speaker of the House Scott Saiki, and Reps. Linda Ichiyama and Aaron Johanson speak to The Conversation.

The major stakeholders in the Red Hill fuel leak and water contamination crisis held a public meeting Friday. It’s been six months since fuel was found in the Navy water system, forcing thousands of military families out of their homes and into hotel rooms just before the holiday season.

A former Hawaiʻi Department of Health official says the most frustrating part of working with the Navy to fix the Red Hill situation is coordinating with the multiple departments and chains of command.

In a "unified" statement, city and state leaders formally announced their decision to work together on policy to guide the Navy’s defueling and remediation efforts of the island’s aquifer.