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The new default electric service rate proposed by Unitil could be a positive indicator for all New Hampshire ratepayers this summer.Filed with the Public Utilities Commission on June 14, Unitil is proposing a default electric service rate...

By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR

A new National Institutes of Health study suggests prenatal exposure to PFAS is linked to slightly higher body mass index and obesity risk in children. Some of the data used came from New Hampshire.The New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study – operated out...

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Tucked away on a busy Concord thoroughfare dotted with big-box stores, fast food chains, and automotive services is 10 acres of recreational green space. At Keach Park in the city’s Heights neighborhood, a flat, shaded walking trail loops around a...

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Liquid simmers and gurgles in the bulbous flasks sitting atop a multi-unit heating system. Drenched in fluorescent light, the complex chemistry contraption is continuously bathing clumps of soil, window caulking, concrete, paint chips, and sediment in...

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American kestrel #42329 spent its winter around Masonboro Island on the southern coast of North Carolina, before starting its annual flight north on April 14. On its way toward New Hampshire, it was tracked in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,...

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A ground-level crypt inside the peaceful Mount Calvary mausoleum is flanked by butter yellow tulips and bright chrysanthemums. Late in the day, sunlight pours through an adjacent stained-glass window, painting it in colors of sea glass – translucent...

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The Department of Environmental Services doesn’t look at how multiple pollutants being produced by the same facility may combine, or the collective pollutive burden created by more than one site within close proximity, an official told House lawmakers...

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Much of the Northeast joined together last week in submitting a whopping $3.62 billion proposal to the federal government in hopes of becoming a regional clean hydrogen hub. Missing from the announcement was New Hampshire.Massachusetts, Rhode Island,...

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Congressman Chris Pappas has introduced federal legislation that would spare future PFAS rebate recipients across the country from what his constituents in New Hampshire experienced this tax season.Private well users who applied for and received...

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Ahead of a winter season anticipated to see exorbitantly high heating and electricity costs, New Hampshire lawmakers earmarked an additional $35 million in state funds to help another 50,000 households pay the bills.As he signed off on the new...

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Hundreds of private well users have been reimbursed by the state after spending their own dollars to remediate PFAS contamination. But when tax season rolled around this year, they were mailed 1099 forms, telling them the money they received is...

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New Hampshire saw a more than 370 percent increase in reported cases of babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, between 2011 and 2019, according to a new federal study released last week.Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the...

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One thousand acres of New Hampshire’s Great Bay were once covered by live oyster reefs. Today, 90 percent have vanished, lost to pollution, disease, and harvest.But the tidal estuary is now the site of a celebrated revival, where a pilot restoration...

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A residential school in Manchester serving some of the state’s most vulnerable youth is reaping the benefits of free-of-charge energy efficiency upgrades, in more ways than one. A partnership between Easterseals’ Gammon Academy and two of the state’s...

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Not far from the old woolen mills, shoe factories, and more urban areas of industrial Rochester are swaths of undeveloped land abounding with vernal pools, sandy flats, and remnants of a small 19th-century granite quarry.Across the street from the...

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New Hampshire may be celebrated as the “Granite State,” but the centuries-old nickname also bears caution.Because of the widespread presence of granite bedrock, the state has high percentages of homes with elevated radon levels. An invisible threat,...

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Ted Stiles asks people a trick question: “What is the greenest energy?”Wind or solar power, people enthusiastically proclaim. Maybe someone throws out hydropower. But the true answer, Stiles contends, is “the energy you’re not using at all.” An energy...

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The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is recruiting new volunteers for the upcoming summer hiking season at Mount Major. The society’s Volunteer Trailhead Outreach Program is modeled after successful stewardship programs, like the...

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Susan Durling wants to see a thumb on the scale for consumers. That’s what the Hillsborough resident told state lawmakers last week as she testified in support of a bill that would change the default electric service rate paid by residents and...

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Because of this winter’s unpredictable and fluctuating temperatures, New Hampshire Fish and Game officials are urging people to exercise caution when near ice. “With erratic weather conditions, some areas of ice may look safe, but may not be,” Col....