(April 27, 2021, 8:07 AM EDT) -- HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii on April 7 denied the county of Maui’s request for an evidentiary hearing to determine the reliability of a 2013 groundwater study that estimates the amount of injectate from two underground injection wells operated by the county that reaches the Pacific Ocean, finding that the better time to reach a decision on the study’s admissibility would be during an upcoming bench trial....