Hawaii has passed legislation to increase people staying at hotels to help the islands cope with the increasing pressures ...

The White House has begun a new effort to sue individual states over their climate initiatives and to stop lawsuits against ...

Hawaii lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind legislation that increases taxes on short-term lodging to fund environmental ...

Puerto Rico withdrew its $1 billion climate lawsuit against the oil and gas industry on Friday following the Trump ...

In an unusual move, the Trump administration pre-emptively sued Hawaii and Michigan to try to stop them from suing oil ...

Hawaii’s legislators just passed a first-of-its-kind bill that will increase the hotel tax by 0.75% to 11%, beginning ...

Hawaii lawmakers have passed first-of-its-kind legislation that increases the state’s lodging tax. They say the increase will ...

A new bill has passed the Senate in The Aloha State to raise the tourist tax in an effort to "reduce climate change." Senate Bill 1396 aims to raise the tourist tax on Hawaii hotels to 11% ...

The increased tax — dubbed “the green fee” and passed in the wake of the devastating wildfires that swept across Maui — is ...

Hawaii lawmakers are ready to hike a tax imposed on travelers staying in hotels, vacation rentals and other short-term ...

Green said Hawaii was the first state in the nation ... tax revenue for the purposes of environmental protection or climate change. The increase will add to what is already a relatively large ...