Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: Trash plan hits a snag and Rim-Pac worries environmentalists.

• Honolulu’s plan to send garbage to the mainland hit another snag just as a load is readied, according to the Star-Advertiser.

• Rim of the Pacific military summit has environmentalists concerned, according to The Garden Island. In 2004, sonar exercises forced 200 melon-headed whales into Hanalei Bay for more than 28 hours.

• Temperatures at Hawaii’s higher elevations are rising faster than the global average, the Associated Press reports. Civil Beat previously covered Friday’s climate change meeting.

• The Hawaii Department of Health is still reviewing a plan to discharge 30 million gallons of shrimp remains into the ocean off West Kauai every day, The Garden Island reports.

• Kauai representatives are celebrating a new state law that bans vegetating the beach and preserves public access.

• Tonight, Sunset Beach will become the first community to preview the new Tsunami Evacuation Zone maps.

• One Expert estimates that there are 315 billion pounds of plastic in the oceans right now.

• New York has great tap water, so why did the city spend $1.2 million on bottled water last year?

• An internal audit reveals that the U.S. Department of Energy is struggling to implement efficient lights.

• Politics are still trumping science despite President Barack Obama’s campaign promises that he’d reverse Bush administration policies.

• After three months of failures, BP says it’s on the verge of ending the Gulf gusher that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the sea, the New York Daily News reports today.

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