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Peaches are plentiful this year. These are at Monahan Farm in East Kingston, NH.
News covering science and the environment.
On Tuesday, a draft transportation climate plan was released by the Transportation Climate Initiative or TCI, which for the past year has had states in the region studying ways to reduce greenhouse emissions through cleaner fuel and modes of transport.
More than 100 representatives of the community, conservation and historic projects packed into the Executive Council Chamber at the State House Wednesday for the announcement of the awards through the very popular Land and Community Heritage Investment Program, better known as LCHIP.
Resulting climate and health adaptation plans from the Monadnock region focused on extreme weather, the Upper Valley on heat stress, and the Lakes and Seacoast Networks on Lyme disease.
The Committee to Study Recycling Streams and Solid Waste Management in New Hampshire issued its final report recently with 23 recommendations and 39 findings.
Deadlines loom for 156 retained bills from the last session, which will be among the first orders of business when the legislature returns on Jan. 8, 2020.
House GOP Leader Dick Hinch: “I believe there are better ways to help consumers make informed decisions other than forcing stores to charge consumers ten cents per bag.”
Wayne D. King, The Radical Centrist, interviews Doug McLane, a founder of Pemi Climate Emergency Coalition, about the Plymouth Select Board’s recent declaration of a climate emergency.
Vail Resorts took over the state’s lease of the ski area from Okemo Resort owners Tim and Diane Mueller last year.
They discovered that e-cigarette waste made up 19 percent of that recovered litter – trash that a mere a decade ago would scarcely have existed on high school campuses anywhere.