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: fighting Molokai’s wind farm and asking for forced labor leniency.

• Molokai Dispatch: The fight to keep wind turbines off Hawaiian homestead lands continues.

• A pair of former governors and dozens of others wrote letters asking a federal judge to go easy on the Sou brothers, who pleaded guilty of forced labor of Thai immigrants at Aloun Farms. We’ll soon find out: Is it what you did, or who you know that matters?

• A Big Isle farmer whose genetically-modified papayas were vandalized now tallies his loss at 13,000 trees worth more than $120,000. In today’s Civil Beat story about seed corn, a UH professor criticizes “frankenfoods hysteria.”

• Gov. Linda Lingle says Honuaula development owner’s representative Charlie Jencks is an excellent addition for the state Land Use Commission, the Maui News reports.

• A Big Island councilman wants the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources to ban aquarium fish exporting until it conducts research on its impacts, according to West Hawaii Today.

• The Kauai Springs bottled water company complains that the county’s appeal of the company’s court-ordered permits is hurting the business and preventing them from selling.

• The proposed Nanakuli park should instead become a construction landfill, geologist and environmental consultant Bill Lyon says in a Star-Advertiser op-ed.

• If you haven’t yet, check out our new topic page on Climate Change. Then watch Planet 100’s “Ocean Acidification Explained” (hat-tip Treehugger)

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