Does reducing pollution make you feel cold, alone, and poor?
An out-of-state organization is spending thousands trying to convince you that it should.
The group, American Action Network, is running television ads targeting Congressmen who voted for a bill that would have – get ready – put a cap on carbon pollution. Oh the horror!
The...
Over the last few months, the US Senate has discussed several different proposals dealing with energy and climate change. The major points of conflict have been whether to place a cap on carbon emissions, put a price carbon pollution and to what sectors of the economy these caps and prices would apply (i.e. electric utilities/power plants, transpiration and manufacturing). The...
During my four years at Concord High School, I passed this plant on Pleasant St. countless times. It seemed so out of place; with its smokestack spewing who-knows-what into the air, it looked like the poster-child for air pollution and big, scary, environmentally-harmful industry.
But the plant, owned and operated by Concord Steam Corporation, isn't what it appears....
Many of you are already aware of the benefits of buying local. It is well known that when buying local, a greater percentage of the money circulates throughout the surrounding community and helps create, you guessed it, local jobs, rather than being shipped across the country to the accounts of business people and shareholders who...
New Hampshire is currently the second most forested state in the country, trailing only Maine, with 78.4% forest cover, That’s pretty cool. However, this probably comes as no surprise to anyone who lives here; driving through most areas in New Hampshire is a matter of weaving through woods. On clear, summer days, the state seems to light...
Despite accounting for one-third of carbon dioxide emissions, the transportation sector still lacks any major program to bend the CO2 emission curve downward, according to NH DES Climate, Energy, and Transportation Programs Manager Rebecca Ohler. But just as the states of the Northeast created the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to reduce utility emissions,...
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its economic analysis of the American Power Act, the comprehensive climate and energy bill crafted by US Senators Lieberman (I-CT), Kerry (D-MA) and Graham (R-SC).
Without taking into account any of the likely positive economic benefits of creating a new clean energy economy and greater energy independence, the study...
Let the raiding begin!
Tomorrow, the House and Senate are scheduled to release their latest attempt to resolve the state's unbalanced budget at an information session scheduled for 1:00 in Representatives Hall. The public is invited to attend and comment, although just what is contained in the final package is not yet known, but what we do...
On Wednesday, May 26th, a panel gathered at the Portsmouth Public Library to discuss climate change and energy with local residents. It was not your average group of environmental activists. Rather, attendees were given a sobering look at the cost of America's addiction to fossil fuels to those at the front lines of defending the...
Last week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a report which concluded that in 2008, New Hampshire sent $59 million to Venezuela for the purchase of coal. New Hampshire is #8 among the states in international coal imports, and #1 in coal imports from Venezuela.
Politico reported on Wednesday that a group of US Senators sent an open...
