Sierra Club v. Hawaii Tourism Authority

Opinion by

ACOBA, J.

We.hold that Petitioner Sierra Club (Petitioner) has not met the three-part “injury-in-fact” test for standing to assert its claim that an environmental assessment (EA) should have been conducted by Respondent Hawai'i Tourism Authority (HTA) prior to its letting of a contract for tourism marketing services. While we are not unsympathetic to the concerns it raises, Petitioner has not established: (1) that it would suffer an actual or threatened injury as a result of the marketing services proposed in the contract; (2) that the alleged or threatened injury is or would be…