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Community Action Works (formerly Toxics Action Center) and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have settled their federal Clean Water Act lawsuit against Casella Waste Systems, Inc., and North Country Environmental Services, Inc., for the discharge of pollutants from the companies’ Bethlehem Landfill into the Ammonoosuc River.
In a candid and soul searching conversation, this Podcast brings us a rare look at the “ground-level” experience of scientists who chose to take a risk that they could help bring about a better future for their son and the sons and daughters of all of us.
The state Department of Environmental Services is moving forward with plans to realign its waste management efforts to focus on reducing the amount of trash that ends up in landfills.
BERLIN — A public hearing on the proposed expansion of the Mount Carberry landfill in the town of Success brought only one comment, and that was largely in praise of the operation.
You don’t need a Kremlinologist to understand my perspective on these things in my capacity as the state’s official advocate for residential utility customers. Rolling blackouts are a small but real possibility this winter.
Kevin Roy of Casella Waste Systems urged the governing board of the Pemi-Baker Solid Waste District to consider reopening its contract with North Country Environmental Services to extend it for the life of the Bethlehem landfill at a Dec. 8 meeting.
John Casella, chair and chief executive officer of Casella Waste Systems, Inc., has withdrawn Granite State Landfill’s application for a wetlands permit for the company’s proposed landfill in Dalton, but he said the project remains vitally important “and we intend to see it through to completion.”
The Department of Health and Human Services’ press release Friday saying higher than expected cases of kidney and renal cancers were detected in Merrimack didn’t surprise those who want Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics closed because of a notice of deficiency it received from the state.
The Current Use Advisory Board has endorsed proposed changes in current use rates for tax year 2022-23 that represent modest increases in the forest land categories. Farmland would remain at its 2021-22 rate.