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Maui County residents still need help paying the bills even as the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission last week extended the temporary ban on disconnections for electricity, water and other utilities.
“While the moratorium offers some relief to these households for the time being, it doesn’t eliminate the large debts owed,” said Cassi Yamashita, community services director at Maui Economic Opportunity.
The nonprofit has a program to assist low-income households with bills from Hawaiian Electric Co. or Hawaii Gas.
“Many of the applications we are seeing are from households who have not been able to pay their bills for months, some almost a year,” Yamashita said. “The same can be said about rental or mortgage assistance applications.”
Even as transit authorities expect $70 million from federal COVID relief funds, the interim CEO sees no easy way to finish the final segment of rail. The project was supposed to be entirely finished by Jan. 2020.
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EPA: Hawaii s Military Bases Dumped 630,000 Pounds Of Toxic Nitrate Into The Ocean - Honolulu Civil Beat
EPA: Hawaii’s Military Bases Dumped 630,000 Pounds Of Toxic Nitrate Into The Ocean
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U.S. military bases in Hawaii dumped more than half a million pounds of nitrate compounds toxic chemicals commonly found in wastewater treatment plants, fertilizers and explosives into the ocean in 2019, newly released federal data shows.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam led with the release of 540,000 pounds, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest Toxic Release Inventory. The rest more than 86,000 pounds came from the U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay.
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