The Moku Pahu is owned by the Hawaiian Sugar Transportation Cooperative ... of which continues today — over the health effects of cane burning and the ethics of water diversion.

The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Sugar cane may no longer be processed at the Puunene Mill, but one Hawaii island nonprofit found a use for the leftover stalks still dotting the Maui landscape.

The Sugar King attained even greater triumphs in the still-independent kingdom of Hawaii. In 1875, Hawaiian cane sugar was allowed to be exported to the United States; Spreckels spotted an ...

Hawaii, was burning coal and petroleum along with sugar cane waste to generate power, according to court documents. The organization claimed that the burning of fossil fuels endangered residents’ ...

That number rose as the sugar beet industry grew and the U.S. signed an 1876 treaty with Hawaii. During Prohibition ... or cutting off access to Pacific cane fields, and the war effort needed ...