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By ELIOT WESSLER

Eliot Wessler lives in Whitefield and works with a number of grassroots organizations in NH's North Country. Congratulations to the Concord Monitor for the recent article documenting the lax oversight of New Hampshire’s landfills. The article shines a...

By TERRY CRONIN

Terry Cronin lives in Hopkinton. In January, the live wire of energy market volatility loomed over the House Science, Technology and Energy (S, T & E) Committee hearings on New Hampshire’s electricity markets. The sessions were intended for committee...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

On a crisp winter morning in the scenic winter town of Conway, the odor of rotten eggs wafted through the air at the Lower Mount Washington Secure landfill, which overlooks the White Mountains.To mask the smell of decomposing waste and to keep pests...

By MILLIE LAFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. As we’ve bounced between periods of unseasonably warm and unseasonably frigid weather this winter, the effects of climate change are inescapable, even to those of us who wish to ignore that inconvenient truth. We’d...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Awareness about the health, economic, and environmental costs of fossil fuel use aren’t the creation of liberal snowflakes, hippies, or communists, and the push back isn’t new,...

By REAGAN BISSONNETTE

Reagan Bissonnette of Concord is the executive director of Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA). As dangerously cold winds continued to blow across New Hampshire over the weekend, transfer station staff braced for temperatures far below zero...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

For students at Hollis Primary School, diverting food waste from landfills is no difficult task. As many towns in New Hampshire struggle to get their residents to divert food waste, a program that was started through a grant fund at the school has...

By ERIC ORFF

Eric Orff of Epsom is a wildlife biologist. His observations have been documented for 20 years at nhfishandwildlife.com. I have been a watcher of nature all my life. Mostly right here in New Hampshire, and for the last half century I have been...