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The Biden administration announced Wednesday it will spend $95 million to help strengthen Hawaii’s electrical grid in the wake of deadly wildfires that swept through parts of Maui earlier this month. The fast-moving fires were the deadliest in modern U.S. history, killing more than 100 people on the island, forcing thousands to evacuate and destroying the historic town of Lahaina.

On Wednesday afternoon, President Biden addressed both the government’s long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts on the island, as well as the administration’s ongoing response to Hurricane Idalia, a major storm that made landfall in Florida on Wednesday morning.

“I don’t think anybody can deny the impact of a climate crisis anymore,” Biden said. “Just look around. Historic floods ... more intense droughts, extreme heat, significant wildfires have caused significant damage like we’ve never seen before.”

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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All energy will be generated with renewables, right? Right?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All energy will be generated with renewables, right? Right?

I mean, yeah, likely. The biggest issue is corruption though. Hawaii's state government is extremely corrupt and be it via nepotism, cronyism or incompetence, it doesn't seem to be getting better.

It doesn't seem to matter if its infrastructure, policing, or just basic things like building permits, Hawaii is rife with corruption. The idea that you could try to run any kind of project through HECO and get reasonable results seems laughable.

Some more material:

https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/11/public-corruption-directly-undermines-faith-in-hawaiis-government/

https://www.civilbeat.org/category/hawaii-corruption-investigations/

https://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/36523/Deep-Moral-Crisis-in-Hawaii-Government