{"id":47187,"date":"2016-06-20T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47187"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:10:51","slug":"governor-ige-strengthens-environmental-court-at-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/20\/governor-ige-strengthens-environmental-court-at-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ige strengthens environmental court at law school"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_47190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47190\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-law-ige-signing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-law-ige-signing.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-law-ige-signing-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor David Ige (center) with guest speakers from India and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> government officials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.hawaii.gov\/governors-bio\/\">David Ige<\/a> signed Senate Bill 2453, a bill that strengthens <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.hi.us\/special_projects\/environmental_court\">Environmental Court<\/a> system, into law at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa. The signing took place at the 2016 India-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Law Symposium.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/13\/law-school-hosts-the-india-hawai%CA%BBi-law-symposium\/\">Law school hosts the India-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> law symposium<\/a>, June 13, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To strengthen the judicial toolkit for addressing aquatics and fisheries violations, such as illegally taking a female lobster, using an illegal net, or spearfishing in a protected area, the new legislation will allow district court judges to sentence violators to community service and educational training in addition to or as an alternative to existing fines. In effect, it will create a system whereby poachers can learn to become stewards of the environment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This innovative new legislation was strongly supported in the legislative session by a diverse group of legislators and stakeholders including fishers and conservation advocates, the judiciary and DLNR, who all agreed that effective enforcement is key to sustainable fishing and natural resources,&rdquo; said Associate Dean <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/personnel\/antolini\/denise\">Denise Antolini<\/a><\/strong> who has helped build the Environmental Law Program at the <abbr title=\"Univerity of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> law school. &ldquo;The bill is nicknamed <abbr>ASSET<\/abbr>&#8212;for Alternative Sentencing and Supplemental Environmental Training&#8212;because it is focused on changing the behavior of violators of our natural resource laws in a positive way and for the long-term benefit of the entire community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/article\/governor-sign-law-strengthening-environmental-courts-uh-law-symposium\">signing and the new law<\/a> at the law school website.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor David Ige signs a bill to help protect fisheries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9,68],"class_list":["post-47187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113320,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47187\/revisions\/113320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}