This past Sunday (12/06/09) afternoon, rescuers from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary freed a juvenile Humpack.   The entangled young whale was first spotted by a whale-watching cruise on Dec 1st.  Apparently hundreds of feet of polypropylene rope was entangled through the animals mouth, around its head and behind its blowhole.
Members from NOA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA’s Pacific Islands Regional Office and Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) were allowed close enough to cut the lines using specialized equipment after a …

Over the last three years the county has be in & out of trouble with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health (DOH).
The alleged incidents involve the Central Maui Landfill failing to install a federally mandated gas control system to collect emissions, and the country allowing polluted storm water to run off the Molokai & Lanai dumps.  Allegations also pointed to an incidents at the Hana landfill which saw the dump mishandling auto waste.  The March 2007 DOH Press release stated:

DOH has cited the County for the failure …