Experimental Mosquito Releases: Hawaii Appeals Court Decision Undermines Environmental Law (4/20/25)

H Hawaii Media radio host Johnny Miro interviews Tina Lia, founder of the environmental nonprofit Hawaii Unites, about the State of Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) decision in Hawaii Unites' case to stop experimental bacteria-infected mosquito releases on Maui. The ICA’s decision to allow these mosquito releases to move forward with no studies of the potential significant impacts sets a damaging precedent. Our environmental laws are undermined when agencies can get away with a lower standard of review for massive projects like this that can have irreversible consequences that may affect the health of our islands’ people, ‘āina, and wildlife.

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