15:36 → 15:53(17s)
Chair and staff opened the Feb. 19, 2026 meeting at 9:45 a.m. in Conference Room 325 and identified Chair Loewen and Representative Caruso as present and listed the day's agenda items.
The Hawaii House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection held a morning hearing on Feb. 19, 2026, considering four clean-energy bills addressing a clean fuel standard, a sustainable aviation fuel tax credit, renewable fuel production credits, and a clean vehicle rebate program. Testimony included state agencies, airlines, renewable-fuel producers, environmental groups and opponents who debated trade-offs between electrification goals, local feedstock production, and tax-credit design; the committee passed the four bills with technical and policy amendments and deferred a landfill-unit bill.
