InDepthNH.org (http://indepthnh.org/category/environment/)
Glenn Coppelman photo
Peaches are plentiful this year. These are at Monahan Farm in East Kingston, NH.
News covering science and the environment.
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 undermine the EPA’s core mission to protect our environment and public health demand an appropriate response: his resignation or his firing.
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.
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 policy… Plus, I am convinced that ratepayers get better outcomes at the PUC the more sunshine there is.
Check out where New Hampshire stands relative to wind and solar power.
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.
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 million in state funds that was intended to clean up the Coakley Landfill Superfund site.
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 Streets in Downtown Concord. Inside the Holiday Inn from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m., the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management will host a public meeting.
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 infrastructure. Energy efficiency, demand response, micro-grids, battery storage, and small-scale generation facilities are the kind of infrastructure that does not require SEC approval, yet all count.
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 buried underground in Vermont and through Lake Champlain.
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 project, they believe loose ends and gaps need to addressed.
