The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled the U.S. Army violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it failed to consider any location other than Hawai'i for conversion of the 2nd Brigade of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division into a brigade built around the 25-ton Stryker fighting vehicle. The court agreed with Native Hawaiian organizations 'Ïlio'ulaokalani Coalition, Nä 'Imi Pono, and Kïpuka, represented by Earthjustice, that the Army's decision to transform in Hawai'i was illegal, since it failed to conduct the mandated analysis of the environmental impacts of stationing a Stryker brigade in Hawai'i or of "reasonable alternatives to such a transformation."Read more...

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