[CPEO-MEF] TRAINING: "Hawai‘i Land Board Rejects Army’s Environmental Report for O‘ahu Training Lands"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

For Immediate Release, June 27, 2025 
Center for Biological Diversity
Hawai‘i Land Board Rejects Army’s Environmental Report for O‘ahu Training Lands
Decision Protects Endangered Species, Native Hawaiian Cultural Sites, Groundwater Supply From Further Military Damage

HONOLULU— The Hawai‘i Board of Land and Natural Resources today voted to reject the U.S. Army’s final environmental impact statement for its proposed long-term retention of nearly 6,300 acres of state land at Kahuku Training Area, Kawailoa-Poamoho and Mākua Military Reservation on O’ahu.

The board’s decision follows overwhelming public opposition, formal objections by state agencies and expert findings that the Army’s environmental review failed to comply with Hawai‘i’s Environmental Policy Act. The document lacked critical baseline data on endangered species, cultural sites, wildfire risk and chemical contamination.

“This decision is a long-overdue stand against the historic destruction of Oʻahu’s sacred and irreplaceable places,” said Maxx Phillips, Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands director and staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The board finally said enough is enough after decades of the Army carelessly carving up these lands, burning native forests and bulldozing cultural sites. This land doesn’t belong to the military — it belongs to the people, to the ancestors buried here and to the rare life still surviving in these places.”

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For the entire release, see
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/hawaii-land-board-rejects-armys-environmental-report-for-oahu-training-lands-2025-06-27/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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