Fellows mentioned in this story: Jeff Mikulina

From Civil Beat:

In announcing the opening of a new, $377 million rental car facility at Honolulu’s airport in December 2021, the state Transportation Department heralded the convenience it would offer air passengers and its “environmentally friendly construction practices” and “energy efficient fixtures.”

But one modern green transportation convenience was conspicuously absent from the five-story structure, which is massive enough to house 10 rental car company offices and their fleets. The department didn’t include a single charging station for electric vehicles in the finished product, or even a single charger-ready parking stall.

To sustainability advocates, it was an enormous oversight and missed opportunity.

“How could we shoot ourselves in both feet?” asked Jeff Mikulina, a longtime sustainability expert considered an architect of Hawai‘i’s renewable energy policy.

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