Navy faces mounting pressure on Red Hill in the new year

TL;DR - The Navy has been scrambling to contain the political and regulatory fallout from its water contamination crisis since confirming that jet fuel had polluted its Red Hill drinking water shaft in late November.

But 2022 is unlikely to bring any reprieve for military officials as candidates will undoubtedly seize on the issue of the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility — the all-but-­certain source of the pollution — in this year’s political elections, health and environmental regulators continue their pressure on the Navy to comply with an emergency order to drain the tanks, and the Navy faces a tidal wave of public opposition to its continuing operation of Red Hill.

January 2, 2022: Navy faces mounting pressure on Red Hill in the new year, Honolulu Star-Advertiser