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CONCORD — With New Hampshire residents facing skyrocketing energy costs this winter, Democrats said Thursday the governor’s energy plan has left the state unable to blunt the impact on families and businesses.
CONCORD — Describing the proposed Dalton landfill as the largest project that the state Department of Environmental Services has dealt with in the past 50 years, members of the bureaus reviewing the permit applications attempted through an online information session to shed light on the review process in the light of public complaints.
As the Commission To Study Offshore Wind and Port Development approaches a deadline for submitting recommendations to the governor and the legislature, questions about the role of fishermen and others who may be impacted by the project continue to arise.
Amidst the COVID waste disposal shakeup, Lebanon logged their best revenue year for recycling in 2020, and by July of this year they’d already reached their recycling revenue estimates.
CONCORD — Punctuated by the chorus of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going To Take It,” a grassroots crowd of North Country residents and members of the Sierra Club, Community Action Works, Forest Lake Association, Conservation Law Foundation, and Save Forest Lake staged a protest outside the N.H. Department of Environmental Services’ Hazen Drive Headquarters on Friday afternoon.
The Water Division of the Department of Environmental Services has asked Granite State Landfill, LLC, a Casella-owned company seeking a wetlands permit for its proposed new facility in Dalton, to submit an amended application that focuses solely on the first phase of the project.
In a new exhibit, Strawbery Banke is documenting sea level rise here in New Hampshire.
. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.
The National Weather Service predicts Henri will weaken Sunday night with winds gusting 20 to 30 mph in some places in New Hampshire especially in southern and coastal areas with high surf through Monday morning.