Education
3 of 4 Top Gubernatorial Candidates Talk Business Concerns at Concord Forum
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Before an audience of business owners and executives, three of the top four candidates for governor took the stage together to introduce themselves.
Environment & Science
Temperatures Dangerously Spike in Southern New Hampshire Under Heat Dome
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The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for southern New Hampshire, with “heat index values up to 105 expected.”
Environment & Science
Yup. It’s Still Hot and Going to Get Hotter
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Find the forecast for your town or city by going to the National Weather Service website. Then in the upper left hand corner, type in where you live.
Business & Economy
NHDES, Advocates Wait on Action From Saint-Gobain; New PFAS Superfund Ruling Leaves Questions for Cleanup
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A new EPA classification of two PFAS chemicals as hazardous under the Superfund Law has also entered the conversation about the cleanup of the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics site in Merrimack, a manufacturing company notorious for widespread PFAS contamination of drinking water.
Business & Economy
Select Lawmakers Back in Concord This Week to Finish Up Bills, Including Cannabis
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With more than 60 bills this session still alive – including legal adult cannabis sales – select lawmakers came to Concord Monday to see if they could make deals across chambers with the clock ticking towards Thursday at 4 p.m., the deadline for a deal.
Business & Economy
Coos Commissioners Want 3 Public Sessions on Carbon Credit Impacts On Logging
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The forest culture of the state, honored for generations, “will be dead and we will become outsiders to our own forest” if a “carbon first” culture replaces it, the Coös County Commissioners said in a letter to state officials.
Business & Economy
Group Files Lawsuit to Challenge Logging in White Mountain National Forest
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Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic filed suit today in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on behalf of forest protection group Standing Trees.
Business & Economy
Senate Trashes Landfill Restrictions
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Legislation seeking to greater restrict landfills, halting permitting, banning out-of-state waste or using scientific measures to determine their locations, was largely trashed by the Senate Wednesday.
Environment & Science
Senate Votes to Ban PFA Added Products from the State
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The Senate approved a bill that would ban products coming into the state that have PFAs intentionally added to them as other states have done.