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Best Environmental Issue
Cane Burning
Forgive the pun, but the controversy over Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar’s insistence that the only way they can process sugar is by first burning the cane in the fields is really blowing up. Defenders point to the company’s 800 employees and the fact that HC&S has “always” harvested sugar in this manner–as though that makes the dumping of toxics and particulates into the atmosphere somehow beyond criticism. Given that the company recently paid a $9,300 fine to the Hawaii Department of Health for “causing or permitting visible fugitive dust to become airborne without taking reasonable precautions,” it’s looking like those complaints are having at least some effect. @apignataro
Runner-up: Monsanto
