The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined the Marukai Corporation in Honolulu $222,030 for selling and distributing unregistered products.

Almost simultaneously, the Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency are evaluating options to improve driver safety at a reasonable “cost.” For the DOT, concerns are arising that cell phone usage in the car, particularly the act of text messaging, is costing drivers’ lives in unnecessary accidents.  The [...]

While car shoppers are used to miles per gallon stickers emblazoned on the rear passenger window of new automobiles, they may notice a difference with the Chevy Volt: three MPG ratings. The Environmental Protection Agency has scored the Volt at 37, 60, and 93 miles per gallon equivalent depending on the driving habits of its [...]

A number of different non-profit agencies, and even for-profit businesses, have stepped forward to challenge a recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to allow E15 to be sold in retail gasoline pumps for cars and trucks produced after 2007.  Previously, the limit on ethanol was placed at a seemingly paltry level of 10% before [...]

Maui’s David “Buddy” Nobriga is one of four people in the pacific islands recognized as environmental heroes by the U.S. EPA.  The award was issued during the agency’s 11th annual Environmental Awards Ceremony in San Francisco earlier this month.  Nobriga was recognized for founding the West Maui Soil and Water Conservation District in 1956, the [...]