ProPublicaOregon State University Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price. propublica.org - by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from …
ProPublica Hawaii Officials Promise Changes to Seawall Policies That Have Quickened Beach Destruction propublica.org - by Mindy Pennybacker and Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Seawalls erode Hawaii’s beaches, but the state has been lax about approving them and disorganized about enforcing the law. Officials now pledge …
ProPublicaBeaches Officials Let Hawaii’s Waterfront Homeowners Damage Public Beaches Again and Again propublica.org - by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser Everybody knows that seawalls cause beach loss, and Hawaii law forbids building them. But Honolulu County officials have granted exemptions to 46 …
ProPublicaBeaches Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing propublica.org Oahu’s Lanikai Beach has suffered some of the most rapid beach loss, almost entirely due to seawalls. This is what the beach looked like in 1968, …
ProPublicaClimate John Kerry, Biden’s Climate Czar, Talks About Saving the Planet propublica.org - by Abrahm Lustgarten In the months before the election, Joe Biden’s most influential voice on the issue of our age shared his views on climate migration, open borders, …