Hawaiʻi committed to 100% clean energy. Now it’s flirting with natural gas.

Published on July 9, 2026

This story was published in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Public Radio . On June 8, 2015, Gov. David Ige sat under the great seal of the state of Hawaiʻi and signed the nation’s first legal commitment to run an entire state’s grid system on 100% renewable electricity. Ige, a Democrat, lamented that Hawaiʻi was “the…

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