{"id":116902,"date":"2025-12-26T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latecruisenews.com\/?p=116902"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:05:06","slug":"federal-judge-upholds-hawaiis-new-climate-change-tax-on-cruise-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/2025\/12\/26\/federal-judge-upholds-hawaiis-new-climate-change-tax-on-cruise-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge upholds Hawaii\u2019s new climate change tax on cruise passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge\u2019s ruling has cleared the way for Hawaii to include cruise ship passengers in a new tourist tax to help cope with climate change, a levy set to go into effect at the start of 2026.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake denied a request Tuesday that sought to stop officials from enforcing the new law on cruises.<\/p>\n<p>In the nation\u2019s first such levy to help cope with a warming planet, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed legislation in May that raises tax revenue to deal with eroding shorelines, wildfires and other climate problems. <\/p>\n<!-- Errore, Advert al momento non \u00e8 disponibile a causa di restrizioni di pianificazione \/ geolocalizzazione! -->\n<p>Officials estimate the tax will generate nearly $100 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>Full story <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/national\/2025\/12\/federal-judge-upholds-hawaiis-new-climate-change-tax-on-cruise-passengers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federal judge upholds Hawaii\u2019s new climate change tax on cruise passengers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge\u2019s ruling has cleared the way for Hawaii to include cruise ship passengers in a new tourist tax to help cope with climate change, a levy set to go into effect at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-116902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hawaii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}