Big hearing tomorrow at 11:15 a.m. on SB755, a bill that would erode decades of environmental protections. Lawmakers replaced a would-be poker bill with something completely different.

As blogger Ian Lind writes:

This week it morphed into a virtual smorgasbord of exemptions from environmental reviews and regulations for a wide range of state and county projects. Worried about the impact of that big interisland cable to move electricity between the islands? You better be, because it looks like this will allow it to be done without any pesky environmental restrictions.

Rep. Cynthia Thielan previously wrote a Community Voice for Civil Beat on bills she termed the “Dirty 8” that sought to do the same things.

Read Lind’s full post at iLind.net.