Hawaii Has A Lot At Stake In Last-Gasp Federal Budget Talks 1 Congress is racing to pass a $1.7 trillion spending bill by the end of the year that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for Hawaii.
WASHINGTON — It might sound funny to some, but Pat Lindquist says she’s putting her faith in Congress.
For the past 50 years, Lindquist and her family have owned property along Napili Bay on Maui’s northwest coast. During that time she’s witnessed rising tides and coastal erosion decimate the beach and choke off the reef.
In 2006, she and others founded a nonprofit, the Napili Bay and Beach Foundation, to fight back against the degradation, much of it due to climate change, and save what they could.
