Environmental Protection Agency

Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were both in Hawaiʻi recently. The Conversation talked to Healani Sonoda-Pale with the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative, and Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi Director Wayne Tanaka about the visits.

An Allies in Resistance rally was held on Saturday to protest cuts to DEI programs and to honor the legacy of Patsy T. Mink. Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda spoke before the crowd.

Funding freezes across Environmental Protection Agency programs are complicating climate and environmental justice efforts. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote looks into how local programs are affected.

EPA Region 9 Administrator Martha Guzman covers the southwestern states and the Pacific. She was just on Maui this week and on Oʻahu as part of a program to help the state build greener ports under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Conversation talked to her about her work with Hawaiʻi, as well as what's to come for the future.

Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 Administrator Martha Guzman discusses Hawaiʻi projects and Trump's return to the White House; Pro wrestler "The Naturalist" brings the fight to save Hawaiʻi's ecosystems into the ring

President-elect Donald Trump has targeted the Environmental Protection Agency, which is supporting Oʻahu's efforts to update its climate action plan.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency levied a fine against the local operator of Daiso stores this month to the tune of nearly $315,000 for unregistered pesticides and misbranded pesticide devices. The Conversation talked to the EPA's Amy Miller about the violations.

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.

What worked? What didn’t? U.S. lawmakers heard feedback from officials and community members about the federal response to the Maui wildfires. Looking to the future was a key theme of the hearing. HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports.

At the Honolulu Board of Water Supply meeting on Aug. 26, experts hired by the utility testified that a Navy contractor failed to properly follow water testing and sampling procedures in the monitoring of the Red Hill water system. Catherine Cruz learned more about the discrepancy.