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Opponents To OffShore Drilling To Rally in Concord March 5

Opponents to offshore drilling are planning to rally outside the official public meeting today (Monday, March 5) outside at the Holiday Inn, from at 3 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the corner of Main and Centre...

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Legislators Ask NH Attorney General to Investigate Coakley Landfill Group’s...

Four seacoast lawmakers—Representatives Mindi Messmer, Renny Cushing, Phil Bean and Mike Edgar—today asked the office of New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to investigate the use of $5...

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Look To Lawmakers As Income Inequality in NH Keeps Growing

We must live within our means, but we keep cutting those means to the help the biggest businesses and the wealthiest citizens. No wonder NH’s income inequality is the fastest growing in the country.

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Few Signs of Coal Revival Despite Trump Administration Support

Check out where New Hampshire stands relative to wind and solar power.

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Let’s Revisit Business Secrecy Exemptions As Energy Week Meets Sunshine Week

Rather, because Sunshine Week is a celebration of the virtues of government transparency, this is a great time to consider the extent to which secrecy is impeding the development of great energy...

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Mack The Seal Is Recovering, Will Be Released in Hampton On Sunday at 5:15 p.m.

PODCAST: Mack is coming back.  Roger Wood talks with Ashley Stokes of the Seacoast Science Center about how the public can view Mack's release.

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Vt. Project Ready To ‘Assist’ Mass. Clean Energy Contract After Northern Pass...

After the stunning vote against Northern Pass' application on Thursday, Vermont-based TDI-NE says it's ready to help Massachusetts's clean energy goals with its fully permitted project that will be...

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Maine Gov. LePage Indicates Mass. May Have Already Moved On From Northern Pass

In Maine, Gov. Paul LePage’s State-of-the-State speech Tuesday night, he said “people from Massachusetts are coming this week to see if we are serious about allowing a transmission line that is only...

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NH Regulators Will Deliberate Northern Pass’ Motion To Vacate Their Denial on...

The Site Evaluation Committee will hold a public meeting on March 12 in Concord to deliberate Northern Pass’ motion to vacate the committee’s Feb. 1 denial of the proposed 192-mile high-voltage...

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NRC to Hold Public Meeting Wednesday On Seabrook Nuclear Plant Performance

Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will discuss the 2017 safety performance of Seabrook Station, operated by NextEra Energy Seabrook, LLC, during a public meeting on May 2 in Hampton.

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May 2 NH House Recap

Check out the actions taken by the New Hampshire House today, May 2.

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Patience Rules In Fly Fishing Except When Lady Luck Stops By The Cocheco River

So I let him continue to practice his casting. We had been out about an hour and a half when I heard “I got one.” To my surprise I see a fish dancing on top of the water.

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Pease Will Be Pilot Site For PFC Contamination Health Study

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) today released the following statement after learning from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry that Pease will be the pilot site for the first...

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Advocates To Sue Bethlehem Landfill Operator Alleging Ammonoosuc Pollution

Toxics Action Center and Conservation Law Foundation held a news conference Thursday saying they have issued a formal notice to Casella Waste Systems, Inc. that they intend to file a lawsuit against...

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Northern Pass on the Brink: A Ratepayers’ Lament

NH's consumer advocate weighs in on Northern Pass. "If you dislike Northern Pass, you should dislike 'New England Clean Energy Connect' even more.  That’s CMP’s rival project – which would, if built,...

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Kuster, Shea-Porter, 63 Colleagues Ask Trump To Fire Pruitt

We formally request that you ask Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign. Scott Pruitt’s unethical behavior, wasteful use of taxpayer money, and his efforts to...

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Rubber Meets Lawmaker Road: School Vouchers, Transgender Rights, Burgess...

With less than a month to go in the 2018 session, lawmakers face some of the biggest decisions they will make this term.

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High-Stakes Pesticide Battle Pits Farmer Against Farmer

Dicamba, an herbicide sold by agribusiness giants Monsanto, BASF and DowDupont, doesn’t just kill weeds.

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Shea-Porter: Congress To Force Pentagon Reform on Open Burning of Munitions

PROPUBLICA: “The Pentagon will have to tell us what it plans to do to stop this practice,” wrote U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat from New Hampshire, in an emailed statement to ProPublica. The...

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Nashua Residents To Speak On Mohawk Tannery Cleanup Wednesday at EPA Meeting

Public meeting is at Nashua City Hall Auditorium Wednesday, July 25, at 6:30 p.m. The post Nashua Residents To Speak On Mohawk Tannery Cleanup Wednesday at EPA Meeting appeared first on InDepthNH.org.

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