Senior Reporter

Twilight Greenaway

Twilight Greenaway is a senior reporter covering water, climate, and the environment for Honolulu Civil Beat.

She has worked as a reporter and editor for Grist, Civil Eats, and the Climate Equity Reporting Project at the UC Berkeley Journalism School. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Capital and Main, among other outlets. She received a BA in journalism from Antioch College and a Master’s Degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College.

Twilight was raised on a coffee farm in South Kona and recently returned with her family after two decades in the Bay Area. She believes in leading with curiosity and humility and is dedicated to fairly documenting and reflecting the complex dynamics inherent to this moment in Hawaiʻi. Despite years spent living in cities, she is a country girl at heart.

You can reach her at tgreenaway@civilbeat.org.

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It Takes A Village To Help Big Island Residents Drive Less

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If Hawaiʻi County’s general plan finally passes this week it could set in motion an effort to improve public transit, make urban areas denser, and add paths for pedestrians and bicycles.

Kona Earthquake Left Catastrophic Water Supply Damage For Hundreds

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In Kona’s coffee belt, up to 500 farmers and others have lost their primary sources of water — and will be relying on trips to county spigots for the foreseeable future.

EPA Just Walked Back Hawaiʻi’s Plan To Retire Its Dinosaur Power Plants Cory Lum/Civil Beat

EPA Just Walked Back Hawaiʻi’s Plan To Retire Its Dinosaur Power Plants

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By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say HECO can sidestep rules years in the making.