Fuel from the Red Hill fuel facility leaked into the Red Hill water well, contaminating the Navy’s Oahu water system. Get the latest updates about cleanup.
For Hawaii, seeing March 22 on the calendar as World Water Day, the annual United Nations observance, stirs anxieties as environmental hazards emanate from the Red Hill fuel storage facility. Read more
While the contract with the two firms will focus on collecting ideas from local residents, the Navy is in the process of awarding a separate contract to a private-sector partner to determine a range of possible Department of Defense uses for the fuel storage facility. Read more
Kristina Baehr, Just Well Law trial lawyer, joined the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s “Spotlight Hawaii” livestream show today and answered questions about Red Hill. Read more
The Pentagon announced last year that it was permanently closing Red Hill after a fuel leak from the facility contaminated the Navy’s drinking water system serving areas in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, sickening military families. Read more
Hawaii’s congressional delegation called on the IRS to “use its administrative authority to exempt any assistance provided by the Department of Defense to ensure the equitable administration of the tax code.” Read more
The company awarded a half-million-dollar, no-bid “public outreach” contract to solicit ideas from the community about possible alternative uses of the Navy’s Red Hill facility once it’s closed for fueling operations is being tight-lipped about how it plans to conduct community outreach. Read more
The officer the Pentagon has tasked with overseeing the defueling of the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility has for Hawaii residents in many ways become the face of the Navy. Read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will grant the Navy’s request for more time to turn over information about spills of toxic fire suppression chemicals at its Red Hill underground fuel facility, but only if military officials agree to speed up release of some of the requested material. Read more
Hawaii must never again risk leaks or spills of any toxic substance into our water supply. Read more
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Many unanswered questions remain about the Navy’s Nov. 29 spill of environmentally hazardous aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) used to suppress fires at its Red Hill fuel-storage site — including just how long it will take to get answers. Read more
The Navy has blown a Monday deadline to provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with details about its cleanup of a Nov. 29 spill of toxic fire suppression chemicals at Red Hill and any past spills of the aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF, at the underground fuel facility, telling federal regulators that it would need another five weeks to provide that information. Read more
The Navy announced Tuesday that it has awarded a contract to Hawaii-based Nakupuna Cos. to develop a public outreach program to look for proposals on how to repurpose the underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility after the military removes the roughly 104 million gallons of fuel stored in the facility’s aging World War II-era tanks. Read more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Navy have agreed on terms of a proposed consent order that requires the Navy to defuel and close the Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility. Read more
Top officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy weathered a barrage of criticism from residents who crowded a town hall meeting Wednesday evening to discuss a proposed regulatory agreement relating to the defueling of the military’s Red Hill fuel facility. Read more
As someone who lived in military housing during the Red Hill water crisis, I am haunted by the institutional betrayal of those 93,000 of us, military and civilians, affected by the jet fuel contamination by the Navy. Read more
Joint Task Force Red Hill, the military organization tasked with defueling the massive fuel tanks at the Navy’s underground Red Hill fuel facility, has expanded its scope of operations after a spill of toxic firefighting foam in November. Read more
Amid skepticism over the level of oversight on the Navy’s defueling of the Red Hill fuel storage facility, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold two public meetings next week to take feedback on its proposed settlement agreement with the military. Read more
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency will be holding two public meetings on its proposed settlement agreement with the military Read more
In the latest disappointment by the Navy in addressing the Red Hill catastrophe, the deadline was missed for a report on what caused at least 1,300 gallons of toxic aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), used to extinguish fuel fires, to spill from a pipe at Red Hill on Nov. 29. Read more
The military says it’s pushed the deadline to the end of this week for an officer to complete his investigation into what caused an estimated 1,300 gallons of toxic fire suppressant to spill from a pipe at Red Hill on Nov. 29, though won’t say when that report might be released to the public. Read more
David Henkin of Earthjustice and Wayne Tanaka of the Sierra Club joined the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s “Spotlight Hawaii” livestream show today and answered viewer questions. Read more
