Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Mike Prysner. We are continuing our urgent coverage of the Navy disaster in Hawaii, which despite being a crisis, is basically absent from national media coverage.

We published a podcast a few days ago titled Red Alert at Red Hill, which I encourage you to

listen to if you haven't already. It provides a lot of the context and background for today's

shorter episode. We also just published a YouTube video where Abbey reports on the latest

details of the Navy cover-up.

But just in a couple days since we produced these reports, so much more has come to light,

and we wanted to talk to someone who was at the forefront of the struggle against the Navy on the island.

Really quickly before I do that, I wanted to say that if you are living on Oahu as a resident

or stationed

at one of the military bases and you have information you think people should know about,

please send it to us via email at the Empire Files at gmail.com as we will be continuing to cover

this important and unfolding story. So with that, I am happy to introduce Wayne Tanaka. He's the chapter director of the

Sierra Club in Hawaii, which has been on the front lines of fighting the Red Hill facility for years.

He's also an attorney who is leading legal actions against Red Hill. He's also a native of

Oahu and a longtime environmental activist there. Wayne, thanks so much for joining us on the Empire Files podcast.

Thank you, Mike.

Great to be here.

Well, you know, I wanted to start.

The last report that we did on this was really when the story had just broke.

The Navy had finally admitted that they detected fuel in the water supply, which was shut down. You know, if they,

of course, went into PR mode, starting to hold town halls and, you know, finally giving information

to the public and their own service members, we had that emotional press conference by Ernie

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