NH News Roundup For August 15, 16. Thanks Glenn Coppelman
White Nationalist Who Participated In Charlottesville Clashes Lives In Keene and other news from around New Hampshire and the world.
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NH DHHS Identifies First Jamestown Canyon Virus Case in New Hampshire and other news from around the state and world.
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Mom alleges school district mishandled autistic son's education and more news from around New Hampshire and the world.
View ArticleWhite Mountain National Forest: What To Do About Traffic Problems?
The White Mountain National Forest is again exploring ways to reduce automobile traffic in the 800,000-acre recreational area, according to Forest Supervisor Tom Wagner.
View ArticleMeeting Scheduled To Discuss The Future Of Coos Trails
Should there be a central organization to help coordinate and improve the use of trails in Coos County? Should the different groups involved with trails – ranging from hiking to ATV clubs – work...
View ArticleReport: Inadequate Culverts Imperil Town Road Budgets And Wildlife
Amid concern that 100-year storms will be happening more often, a new report has worrisome news for towns and landowners in the Ammonoosuc River watershed: About half of 474 culverts investigated will...
View ArticleAir Force To Provide Portsmouth $1.3M For Ongoing Pease Clean-Up
The agreement requires the Air Force to provide Portsmouth with funding to complete design plans for the carbon filtration system that will remove perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in water from the...
View ArticleTown Hall Meeting in Merrimack About Drinking Water Issues Aug. 16
Meeting will be Wednesday, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at James Mastricola Upper Elementary school in Merrimack.
View ArticleFeds Challenge Coos Planners’ Authority
The Coos Planning Board seems headed for a collision with the federal government over the board’s assertion that it has the authority to regulate private projects on federal lands.
View ArticleCalifornia Throttles Down Pollution from Small Engines
New California rules aimed at curbing the surprising amount of pollution coming from leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small gas-powered machines cleared a final hurdle Monday, and are set to take...
View ArticleAnti-Northern Pass Video To Be Shown At SEC Hearing; Featured Foes Must Testify
State regulators ruled against Northern Pass and ordered the video be shown at the adjudicative hearings, but said all 10 people featured in it must be available for cross-examination as lawyers for...
View ArticleAbby Evankow’s Opinion: Gorham OHRV Trail Is Noisy, Dusty and Fume-Filled
OPINION: The news is full of stories of all the happy ATV riders flocking to Jericho Mountain State Park and lining Berlin’s Main Street. But no one is hearing about the much different scene playing...
View ArticleEnvironmental, Community, Campus Leaders Tell Yale: Stop Northern Pass
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Dozens of activists from New Hampshire and the Yale community today delivered an open letter to the Yale University Investments Office calling on the university to stop the...
View ArticleOcean Acidification Threatens New England Fishing Industry
In New Hampshire, Sen. David Watters (D-Dover), oversaw the passage of a bipartisan 2016 bill that established The New Hampshire Coastal Marine Natural Resources and Environment Commission which began...
View ArticleA Steady Hand, Open Heart – Rebuilding the American Idea in a Post-Trump World
In the long shadow of the Rattlesnake Ridge the talk these days at The Common Cafe or Plain Jane’s Diner in Rumney or Dot’s Bread and Butter Bistro in Ashland is often turning to who the next standard...
View ArticleJust Another Routine Thursday for New Hampshire Ratepayers
One would hope that the SEC’s decision would point Eversource and other industry payers in the direction of more local and small-scale projects when it comes to needed improvements to our energy...
View ArticleA Steady Hand, Open Heart – Rebuilding the American Idea in a Post-Trump World
In the long shadow of the Rattlesnake Ridge the talk these days at The Common Cafe or Plain Jane’s Diner in Rumney or Dot’s Bread and Butter Bistro in Ashland is often turning to who the next standard...
View ArticleAmid Rush to Deploy Driverless Cars, Federal Regulators Urged to Keep Hands...
How much preparation have federal transportation authorities carried out to meet the challenge of the advent of self-driving cars and trucks? Not nearly enough, according to a new 44-page report by the...
View ArticleThe Toxic Chemical Whack-a-Mole Game
This cycle has played out in a host of American household items. A popular chemical used in cash register receipts and to harden plastics in sippy cups and water bottles — bisphenol A, also known as...
View ArticleDeliberation Day 1: Regulators Weigh ‘Loose Ends’ in Northern Pass Project
While Site Evaluation Committee members are in general agreement that Eversource has the financial, technical and managerial capability to construct and operate the 192-mile Northern Pass transmission...
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