HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 11 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release on May 10, 2021: Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urging Congress to pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021. The legislation is aimed at combatting the high Black maternal mortality rate and increasing access to maternal and perinatal care. The coalition is highlighting the need to adva more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 14 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a coalition of 44 attorneys general led by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Nebraska Attorney General Douglas Peterson, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan urging Facebook to abandon its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, citing serious concerns ab more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 13 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige and First Lady Dawn Amano-Ige welcomed the University of Hawaii Men's Volleyball 2021 NCAA National Champions to Washington Place for a special proclamation ceremony, declaring May 12, 2021 "Rainbow Warriors Day" in the State of Hawai'i. Head Coach Charlie Wade, his coaching staff, Team Captain Colton Cowell and the UH Men's Volleyball champions arrived at Washington Place aboard a trolley,  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 12 (TNSPer) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaiinuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge has welcomed Kamanamaikalani Brenton Beamer as its inaugural Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment. Starting August 2021, Beamer will take on the newly established position, named in honor of the revered poet and kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) environmental activist. The endowed c more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 10 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Expanded restoration of Indigenous practices will more than compensate for projected losses of endangered waterbird habitat. These findings of an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Kamehameha Schools may provide useful information in discussions at the federal level to down-list the endangered aeo (Hawaiian Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus knudseni) to the leve more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 8 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: To better understand how and where groundwater is recharged on Hawaii Island, a team of earth and atmospheric scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa looked to the source--rainfall. In a published study, the team reported a time-series of rainfall data which highlights that extreme events, such as volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, can affect the chemistry of precipitation. The researchers more PR