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Articles by Ted Bohlen
It’s Time To Stop Kicking Cesspools Down The Road
The Hawaiʻi Legislature cannot delegate away its core duty to safeguard water quality. Hawaiʻi’s 83,000 cesspools discharge roughly 50 million gallons of untreated sewage into our groundwater, streams and coastal waters every day. That steady flow of bacteria and nutrients threatens drinking water, fuels algal blooms and accelerates the decline of coral reefs that sustain local culture and tourism.
Zach Lockwood, Stuart Coleman, Ted Bohlen
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Hawaii Still Has A Serious Cesspool Problem
The state needs to speed up upgrade conversion rates and help homeowners with the costs. Ola i ka wai. If water is life, as the Hawaiian proverb goes, we should protect it with our lives. Though buried underground and hidden out of sight, cesspools are the greatest threat to water quality and the largest source of pollution in the state. Hawaii has 83,000 cesspools that inject 52 million gallons of untreated sewage into the ground and our groundwater each day.
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Column: Veto the costly, dirty Senate energy bill
The state Legislature passed Senate Bill 2510, which is likely to increase electricity rates because it mandates that at least one-third of the renewable electricity generated by systems on each island shall be from “firm renewable energy.” “Firm renewable energy” may have a nice ring to it — until you find out that the definition used in SB 2510 includes biomass, particularly the burning of trees.
Column: Pass bills to address climate emergency
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! We are facing a climate emergency, as the state Legislature declared last year by adopting Senate Concurrent Resolution 44. Since then, new research data show that the emergency is even more dire than previously thought.
Hawaii Shouldn’t Wait To Ban Harmful Chemical Sunscreens
There is another big sunscreen issue in Hawaii, and this one needs immediate action. Although two harmful chemical sunscreens have already been banned in the state, there is strong scientific evidence that two more are harmful to both human health and coral reefs. In fact, mounting research suggests that these two chemicals, avobenzone and octocrylene, are life-threatening to Hawaii’s reefs and are bad for people, including our keiki.
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