Hawaii Lawmakers Tell Navy To Stop Playing ‘Legal Games’ With Red Hill

TL;DR - In a strongly worded letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro on Wednesday, Hawaii lawmakers admonished the military for fighting a state order to drain the Red Hill fuel facility.

The Hawaii Department of Health ordered the military to empty its World War II-era facility after fuel leaked into the Red Hill well, the drinking water source for 93,000 Pearl Harbor area residents. Families were sickened, and thousands remain displaced from their homes. Despite that, the U.S. Department of Justice filed legal appeals in state and federal court to fight the order to “defuel.”

February 9, 2022: Hawaii Lawmakers Tell Navy To Stop Playing ‘Legal Games’ With Red Hill, Honolulu Civil Beat