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News covering science and the environment.
PORTSMOUTH – Gov. Maggie Hassan wants the state to examine results of testing done by the Conservation Law Foundation that show a brook near the Coakley Landfill contains high levels of cancer-causing perfluorinated chemicals, her spokesman William Hinkle said.
A beautiful sunny day here at Standing Rock Reservation.
The EPA’s court-backed determination that greenhouse gases are a threat to America’s health and security might prove hard for a Trump administration to undo.
The intervenor group from Pittsburg, Clarksville and Stewartsown submitted a 21-minute video as their pre-filed testimony about why they oppose the Northern Pass Transmission project.
Howling From the Mountain in NH: A young moose, probably just booted out of camp by his mother, wallowed in a swamp while a curious but imprudent male photographer moved among the reeds between the moose and Route 16. I pulled over and stopped to watch this pair.
State leaders are to receive more than 1,000 petition signatures from citizens in favor of strengthening and continuing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI program.
During two separate, two-month periods in 2015, DHHS facilitated blood tests for 1,578 individuals. DHHS officials will present the final, aggregate results of the blood testing program and answer questions at the meeting.
As local fishermen meet with scientists in Portsmouth, a local environmental group is doing its part to educate people about whales.
The result of these ongoing violations has severely impacted the unnamed stream such that it is void of aquatic life.