Submissions from hawaiipublicradio.org

• Law Restricting Plastic Utensils on O‘ahu Takes Effect: Honolulu food vendors won't be allowed to provide customers with plastic utensils under a new law that took effect Thursday. The city ordinance prohibits plastic forks, knives, spoons, straws, stir sticks, picks and sushi grass.

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  Published 2nd Apr 2021
• Insuring Hawaiʻi's Coral Reefs Is Possible: Protecting coral reefs is a goal for many organizations around the state and the world. There are environmental restrictions and other regulations to protect the reefs. And now there's a new concept -- reef insurance.

  (hawaiipublicradio.org)

  Published 17th Dec 2020
• Honolulu City Council Agrees To Sue Oil Firms For Climate Change Damage. The city contends the fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil knew their products would harm the environment while they collected billions in profits.

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  Published 30th Nov 2019
• Hawaiʻi's Pesticide Ban: Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide that’s in wide use around the world; it’s legal in 49 US States, and its use was legal in Hawaii until a couple of weeks ago, when Hawaii became the first state in the nation to ban its use.

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  Published 1st Jul 2018