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With the potential loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in timber tax revenues for North Country communities and county government because of a shift from logging trees to saving them for carbon credits, lawmakers are beginning to turn their attention to finding replacement revenue.
“The members noted that the name Agiocochook is recorded as a variant name in the BGN’s database entry for Mount Washington, and as such it is permitted to be shown, where warranted, on Federal products alongside (or below) the official name.”
NextEra’s proposed changes to the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant’s 40-year-old emergency plan has the attention of Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn and his director of Homeland Security.
“We have to stop using products with PFAS,” Karen Ebel said.
A new version of a “bottle bill” would transfer responsibility for redeeming bottles and cans to their producers, help municipalities and reduce litter.
In the months that followed the sudden announcement that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics would be closing their Merrimack plant, the fight against PFAS pollution continued.
Change is coming to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as Executive Director Scott R. Mason of Stratford told InDepthNH.org he will not seek another four-year term when it expires in August 2024.
The chair of the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee, Rep. Michael Vose, R-Epping, will introduce a bill in the 2024 session to establish a clean energy portfolio standard that would include nuclear power from Seabrook Station which provides 56 percent of all the electric generation in New Hampshire.
A proposed 1,200-megawatt transmission line through Vermont and New Hampshire has been included in a federal program to improve the nation’s electric grid.