My father always said, “You stand for something, or you stand for nothing.”
Last year, the New Hampshire General Court overwhelmingly stood for the state’s forest community and renewable power by passing Senate Bill 365, a bill to support the state’s six independent biomass power plants. And then the General Court stood up again and reaffirmed that support by overriding the governor’s veto of SB 365 with a two-thirds bipartisan majority in both the House and the Senate.
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