Environment

The state Legislature's effort to preserve Hawai’i’s historic income tax break could have dire consequences for its solar energy efforts, according to industry leaders.

Revenue from the Green Fee tax on tourists was designed to pay for climate projects. Funded projects range from coral reef restoration and wildfire mitigation to a study on sports events.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser's Dave Reardon reports on the first high school surfing championship in Hawaiʻi; Maile Shannon and Luna Kekoa of the Holomua Marine Initiative on expanding the initiative

Acting Konawaena High School Principal Chelsea Qualey and Ramzi Mansour of the state Department of Accounting and General Services share the progress being made following damages from recent storms.

Honolulu’s director of botanical gardens, Joshlyn Sand, shares updates on the cleanup efforts at Ho‘omaluhia Botanical Garden in Kāneʻohe following the Kona low storms.

Troy Nunley, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, talks about the strain that immigration cases have placed on his district and what led him to ask for help from Hawaiʻi judges; Honolulu's director of botanical gardens, Joshlyn Sand, on cleanup efforts at Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden in Kāne‘ohe following the Kona Lows

Former Lt. Gov. Doug Chin speaks on the latest developments after Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke announces leave of absence; state insurance commissioner Scott Saiki speaks on the state of the insurance industry after the Kona low storms.

In the wake of the Lahaina fire and after a close call of its own, Kauaʻi has adopted new rules for wildfire mitigation in several of its historic plantation camps.

Oceanographer and physicist Helen Czerski explains how the ocean's physics the Earth ahead of a talk at UH at Mānoa.

HPR’s Ashley Mizuo reports on a target letter sent by the State Attorney General to Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke as part of their investigation; Santana bassist Benny Rietveld presents a new stage production about a Hawaiʻi jazz saxophonist from The Cavalier, an old Honolulu jazz hotspot.