The Navy has issued its Supplemental EIS for the Hawaii Range Complex, specifically addressing the impacts of sonar on marine mammals.  Other related documents are available here.

Thought this was an interesting look at the satellite shootdown, posted earlier here.

It appears one failing spy satellite is dead.

Still waiting to hear about the Navy’s attempts to shoot down an errant, failing satellite originally posted  here.

The U.S. carved out a part of the Pacific Ocean for an aerial exclusion zone, noted here.  Some of the finer technical points about the tentative shootdown are posted here.  The DOD public affairs

Still waiting to hear about the Navy’s attempts to shoot down an errant, failing satellite originally posted  here.

The U.S. carved out a part of the Pacific Ocean for an aerial exclusion zone, noted here.  Some of the finer technical points about the tentative shootdown are posted here.  The DOD public affairs

Per the Advertiser, the Defense Department has decided to shoot down a failing satellite, instead of letting it randomly crash on Earth.  Summary of Pentagon press conference is here.  The press conference seems to indicate that the shootdown, if successful, will test U.S. capabilities to deal with foreign space "assets".

I had earlier posted on a pending bill in the State of Hawaii attempting to regulate the use of bunker fuel in Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai, here.  Ship emissions are also being discussed in the international arena (to wit: the International Maritime Organization or IMO), here, and nationally, here.  This is the…

One bill (HB2919) proposed for this session of the Hawaii Legislature purports to regulate the use of bunker fuel on ships in Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai.  The background is discussed here.

Haven’t fully digested yet, but the State of Hawaii only extends out three nautical miles, so any attempts to regulate shipboard operations (i.e.