HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 13 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter opposing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) proposed rule to drastically undermine Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination in federal healthcare programs, benefits, and services. Specifically, Secti more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 13 -- Hawaii Attorney General Clare E. Connors issued the following news release: Attorney General Clare E. Connors today joined a coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments, in announcing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its "ACE" - aka "Dirty Power" - rule. The ACE rule replaced the Clean Power Plan, the first-ever nationwide limits on one of the largest sources of climate change pollution: existing fossil-fuele more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 12 -- The Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Office of Administrative Hearings issued the following news release: The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) and the state Boards and Commissions released a summary of disciplinary actions through the month of July 2019 taken on individuals and entities with professional and vocational licenses in Hawaii. These disciplinary actions include dispositions based upon either the results of conte more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 15 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige has appointed Morris M. Atta as the Department of Agriculture's deputy director, effective Aug. 22, 2019 . Morris is the current agriculture land program manager/administrator, overseeing the department's establishment of a land management infrastructure to manage the state's agricultural land assets effectively. Previously, Morris served as head of land acquisition for the city's Honolul more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 15 -- Southwest Airlines issued the following news release: Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today announced the carrier will add new service to, from, and within Hawaii in mid-January 2020 with new, daily service between Sacramento International Airport (SMF) and Honolulu. In addition, new service nonstop between both of the carrier's Hawaii gateways in the Bay Area, Oakland and San Jose, and both Kauai and the Island of Hawaii, will give Southwest Customers access to 18  more PR

SAN JOSE, California, Aug. 15 -- Mineta San Jose International Airport issued the following news release: * * * - Southwest will become the second SJC carrier serving all four main Hawaiian Islands nonstop in January 2020 * * * Southwest Airlines announced today the addition of new nonstop flights to Kona (KOA), on the Island of Hawaii, and Lihue, Kauai (LIH) from Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) beginning in January 2020. With the addition of these two nonstop destinations, South more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 14 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The University of Hawai'i again received full accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International on July 26, 2019. AAALAC accreditation identifies UH as a top research institution that puts care and use of animals in its research and teaching as a top priority. "I was pleased by AAALAC's commendations of Sylvia Kondo and her team for providing more PR

MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 14 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Brett Oppegaard, an associate professor in the School of Communications at UH Manoa's College of Social Sciences, has been awarded the 2019 Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Audio Description Achievement Award for Research Development from the American Council of the Blind (ACB). The award recognizes Oppegaard's work in helping people who are blind or visually impaired. The Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Memorial Award for Re more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Aug. 13 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: The existing astronomical observatories on Maunakea returned to operations this weekend, and it didn't take long for a significant result to be achieved, not only for science, but for assuring the safety of the Earth. Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made on August 11 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have ruled out any potential future impact threat to th more PR