“The size and scope of the TMT is so huge and massive that it wouldn’t even fit on that site,” E. Kalani Flores said. “What we’re seeing now is it appears that the governor and the congressional members are trying to make decisions excluding any input from Native Hawaiians."

This is the first time that a story written by Hawaiians about Hawaiians has been financed and produced on such an epic scale. It is a moment that was decades in the making and that required years of hard work and the building of pilina within the industry kawaiola.news/cover/chief-...

“These attacks are not new — but they are escalating,” OHA trustees said in a written statement. “They aim to dismantle the hard-won protections that enable our people to heal, rise, and chart our future.”

“They just see this as empty space,” Kyle Kajihiro, a UH professor, told the Guardian. “But what Native Hawaiians have helped us to understand, and what other Pacific Island peoples in their history have understood, is that the ocean is really a fabric of connection."

President Trump issued executive orders fast tracking deep sea mining in EEZs and opening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. His admin. appears poised to shrink or even eliminate Papahānaumokuākea Marine Monument. www.naleihilo.com/blog-archive...

Once SpaceX ramps up launches, bird and sea life could face hazardous material spills, falling objects, and sonic booms, according to thousands of pages of government documents reviewed by the Guardian and interviews with oceanographers, aerospace engineers, former government employees, and others.

The agency acknowledged the potential threats, but said they would be infrequent and the risk was low. The FAA assessment bears a major caveat, though: it was in effect prepared by SpaceX itself.

Commercial fishing is no longer prohibited from 50–200 nautical miles around Johnston Atoll, pursuant to a recent presidential proclamation.