Governor is expected to sign the \u2018green fee\u2019, which adds 0.75% levy to state\u2019s existing tax on short-term lodging<\/p>\n
Lawmakers in Hawaii<\/a> have passed first-of-its-kind legislation that will increase the state\u2019s lodging tax to raise money for environmental protection and strengthening defenses against natural disasters fueled by the climate crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hawaii\u2019s governor, Josh Green, supports the creation of the so-called \u201cgreen fee\u201d, and is expected to sign it.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Governor is expected to sign the \u2018green fee\u2019, which adds 0.75% levy to state\u2019s existing tax on short-term lodging Lawmakers in Hawaii have passed first-of-its-kind legislation that will increase the state\u2019s lodging tax to raise money for environmental protection and strengthening defenses against natural disasters fueled by the climate crisis. Hawaii\u2019s governor, Josh Green, supports … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}