Issue Position: Environment

Issue Position

Malama Honua --Take care of Mother Earth has always been critical for Lorraine Inouye..

In 2017, Sen. Lorraine Inouye worked closely with her legislative colleagues to help pass the Hawai'i law that embraces the Paris Climate Accord, and she was subsequently appointed by the Governor as the only neighbor island legislator serving on the newly established Hawai'i Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission. This gives her a front-row seat in establishing needed programs and policies to address the far-reaching impacts of global warming by Hawai'i.

But a commitment to Environmental Protection -- to Malama Honua -- take care of Mother Earth - is not new to our Senator. It is, in fact, something she learned about as a child growing up in a plantation community. It has guided her public policy thinking and decisions from the beginning and is the reason she was the chief Senate negotiator on and credited with securing passage of Hawai'i's Deposit Beverage Container program -- aka, the HI-5 Bottle Bill to formalize statewide recycling.

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