HONOLULU (KHON2) — The U.S. Congress’ House Energy and Commerce Committee are holding an oversight hearing on the Maui fires. Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) announced the hearing on Thursday. Among those who are expected to testify are Shelee Kimura, President and CEO of Hawaiian […]
The US House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing later this month on the deadly Maui wildfires that claimed the lives of at least 115 people, with many still unaccounted for. The Aug. 8 tragedy that wiped out five square miles of homes and businesses in Lahaina is considered the deadliest fire in modern US history.
Hawaiian Electric Co.’s top executive, the chair of the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission and Hawaii’s chief energy officer will be questioned by Congress about the Aug. 8 Lahaina fires that killed 115 and displaced 7,500 people.
A House committee investigating the deadly wildfires in Maui will bring in executives of a utility and two state agencies to testify. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) announced Thursday that a hearing examining the Hawaii fires…