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New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte took office last week. Throughout her campaign she promised she would follow in Gov. Chris Sununu’s footsteps on many policy matters, including energy and climate change.

By MARA HOPLAMAZIAN

Dartmouth graduate student Jacob Chalif is far from home this holiday season. He’s in Antarctica on a mission to find the world’s oldest ice.“It’s certainly a unique experience,” he said. “Everything you do, you have to adapt to do it in the freezing...

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Eleven days before Christmas, an outdoor firepit crackles next to the gift shop at South Farm in Bethlehem. A speaker plays carols as cars roll into the small parking lot.Nigel Manley, bundled up in wool pants and a red and green hat with a festive...

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The French company Saint-Gobain has begun the demolition of its Merrimack facility, where manufacturing processes released PFAS chemicals into surrounding communities for years, contaminating drinking water for nearby residents.Steel from the site...

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The energy company Avangrid is accusing NextEra Energy, owners of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, of sabotaging the development of a transmission line meant to bring Canadian hydropower onto the New England grid.In a lawsuit filed last month,...

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New Hampshire’s Fish and Game department is updating plans to conserve wildlife, and they want your help.State officials are asking for people to respond to a survey about their priorities for wildlife conservation by Nov. 30.Those responses will be...

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New England homes are known for being drafty. But, energy efficiency enthusiasts say, they don’t have to stay that way.With colder temperatures approaching, New Hampshire’s utility companies are trying to spread the word about programs that can help...

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A nominee to fill the empty seat on New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission made his case to the Executive Council on Wednesday for why he’s the right person for the job.Mark Dell’Orfano, who was nominated for a spot on the commission by Gov....

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New England’s last running coal-fired power plant, Merrimack Station in Bow, passed an emissions test over the summer that it struggled to complete for more than a year. But only one of its two units that generate electricity completed the test,...

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New Hampshire is set to receive almost $5 million from the federal government for upgrades to hydroelectric facilities.That money will flow to 17 projects throughout the state to help those facilities replace parts, make repairs, and create new...

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A group of unlikely allies are pushing back against a proposal that could limit participation in future cases before the New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission and make other changes to the agency’s proceedings.Critics say the commissioners are...

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New Hampshire’s top insurance officials have created a new team to help with one of the often invisible difficulties of disaster recovery: the paperwork.Their new Weather Catastrophe Response Team is expected to organize community outreach to help...

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Gov. Chris Sununu is leaving the highest office in the state after eight years, a period during which the effects of climate change and efforts to address them have only grown more intense.Sununu’s tenure has been marked by a market-driven approach to...

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New research from Dartmouth shows one type of seabird in the Gulf of Maine, the black guillemot, has concentrations of mercury in their feathers that are above levels known to have effects on reproduction in other species.The study also looked at...

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New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission is holding hearings this week on a policy that could shape the future of the state's solar industry.It’s called net metering, and it’s the way that people with solar panels on homes and businesses get...

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New Hampshire is at the tail end of a record-breaking heat wave, with communities across the state seeing their longest strings of sweltering days in recorded history.Concord saw temperatures at or above 90 degrees starting on July 6. July 16 marked...

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A year after floods destroyed roads across New Hampshire, damage that threatened buildings in the town of Acworth has been repaired.The journey to recovery for the 850-person town, which saw 32 roads damaged in major storms two years apart, has been a...

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People selling homes in New Hampshire will be required to notify buyers of the possibility of water contamination from PFAS chemicals, under a new law signed this month by Gov. Chris Sununu.Those man-made chemicals have been linked to adverse health...

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New Hampshire is poised to update its building codes, the laws meant to keep homes and commercial buildings safe and comfortable.But in the bill approaching Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk, the code that regulates the energy efficiency of new homes is set to...

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New Hampshire’s utility companies are expected to change their rates for electricity starting on August 1. Energy costs could go up for some and down for others.The state’s three investor-owned utilities – Eversource, Unitil, and Liberty – are...

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Thirteen people have died in fires in just the first half of 2024, according to data from New Hampshire’s fire marshal. That’s more fire-related deaths than in all of 2023, or in all of 2022.The eleven fires that caused fatalities spanned almost every...