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The Department of Defense inspector general released two new reports on the fuel spills at the Red Hill fuel storage facility and other incidents. The report includes recommendations for military leadership to prevent similar events.

Despite another toxic chemical spill last year, leadership of the Joint Task Force-Red Hill said it's still on track to defuel Red Hill by June 2024. The 2022 fire-suppressing foam spill came a year after 93,000 homes on the Navy’s water line were affected by jet fuel contaminating their drinking water, leading to displacement and negative short and long-term health impacts. HPR's Sabrina Bodon has more.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says it is worried about contaminants detected in an ʻAiea well that the agency shut down as a precaution immediately following the 2021 Red Hill fuel spill. This issue is expected to come up at several water-related meetings this week.

Officials say the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaiʻi's order to remove fuel from the Oʻahu fuel storage facility blamed for contaminating the Navy's drinking water system. But it remains unclear if the Navy will pursue a legal challenge to the order in the future.

The Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi wants to intervene in the state’s Dec. 6 emergency order against the Navy following the discovery of jet fuel in a Navy well at Red Hill. The order requires the Navy to stop operations at the fuel storage facility and assess how to safely remove the fuel from the tanks.

More opportunities for the public to get information about the defueling plan for the military’s Red Hill Underground Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. Two meetings kick off early next week. We hear from the Deputy Environmental Health Director Kathleen Ho.

This Red Hill water crisis has stretched out for close to a year now. Federal and State health officials are renewing efforts to survey families affected by the fuel contamination. HPR talked to Dr. Diana Felton, state toxicologist with the Health Department, about their outreach efforts.

The Department of Defense issued letters of censure last week against three retired admirals for their leadership failures that led to fuel contamination and the spill of toxic firefighting foam at Red Hill. But is it considered a punishment? A military attorney said not at all.

An upcoming meeting between the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative group and military officials could be contentious. The Conversation talked to CRI Chair Marti Townsend about the power struggle over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-mandated meetings.

The military wants to reassure the public that any federal government shutdown will not impact the draining of the Navy Red Hill underground fuel tanks on Oʻahu. U.S. Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Michelle Link, deputy commander of Joint Task Force-Red Hill, spoke to The Conversation about the defueling plan.