Physicians urge Ige to ban pesticide ADVERTISING Physicians urge Ige to ban pesticide LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — Kauai health care professionals have urged Gov. David Ige to ban a chemical from agricultural use. Seventeen physicians and psychologists came together to
Physicians urge Ige to ban pesticide
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — Kauai health care professionals have urged Gov. David Ige to ban a chemical from agricultural use.
Seventeen physicians and psychologists came together to send the governor a request to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
Dr. Lee Evslin, a Kauai pediatrician who has practiced for more than 30 years, said he signed on because Ige’s interest in the matter is the state’s “last hope.”
“The science clearly shows that chlorpyrifos may cause irreversible, adverse changes to the unborn child’s brain,” Evslin said. “The federal government is apparently not going to protect our keiki, and the state Legislature failed to pass any meaningful legislation concerning pesticides.
Ige was urged to ban the chemical in the past. In March, members of Hawaii SEED, the group’s president Jeri Di Pietro and a few others from Kauai and Maui met with Ige and expressed their concerns about the chemical.
The group hadn’t heard back from Ige’s office as of last week. They sent the request for a ban April 17.
30K people answer call on monument designations
HONOLULU (AP) — More than 30,000 people have offered their thoughts about the country’s protected areas in the first five days of President Donald Trump’s call for monument designation public comment.
Public comment opened Friday and ends July 10. Trump called for a Department of Interior online system for the public to give their thoughts about U.S. protected areas. The public comment period comes after the department opened a review of more than 24 federally protected areas, including the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and Pacific Remote Islands.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is expected to recommend to the president after the comment period whether any of the monuments should have boundaries changed or rescinded.
Small quake
hits near Pahala
PAHALA (AP) — A magnitude-3.0 earthquake struck the Big Island on Monday evening. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake hit at 5:59 p.m. Monday. Its epicenter was 12 miles north of Pahala at a depth of about 5 miles.
