Mike Coogan has been doing aquaculture, or fish farming, formally for over a decade. Informally — through at-home hobby fish tanks and aquariums — he’s been doing it much longer. Now, he’s joined a legislative effort to streamline the regulatory process for aquaculture in an effort to create a U.S. industry. Coogan is a researcher […]
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At least a dozen offshore millwrights assigned to Wind Scylla were stranded at sea Monday, three days after the Trump administration ordered an immediate stop on Rhode Island’s first large-scale offshore wind project. They are just some of an estimated 1,000 unionized workers whose jobs remained in limbo as Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee, congressional […]
With most of the legislative session’s landfill bills dead in the State House, a legal battle continues between Vermont-based Casella Waste Management and opponents of its efforts to build a new landfill in northern New Hampshire, with each appealing the same state decision for different reasons. Granite State Landfill LLC, a subsidiary of Casella, sued […]
Look before you leap. That’s the general advice from state officials when it comes to enjoying New Hampshire’s beaches. The state provides resources for summer swimmers looking to avoid unscenic surprises from bacteria and toxic algae, but with hundreds of waterbodies, officials often rely on residents to report problems. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental […]
Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law this week a bill requiring trash companies to submit detailed management plans for leachate, the toxic liquid born from rainfall mixing with waste inside landfills. While the state already requires operators to create leachate management plans, House Bill 566 adds additional permit application requisites for prospective new landfills and […]
A controversial recycling facility project in Claremont has been denied by state officials, a win for local conservation and community groups that had been vehemently opposed to the project. Recycling Services Inc., and its Massachusetts-based parent company, Acuity Management, sought to upgrade its recycling facility to handle 500 tons of construction and demolition debris daily, […]
A bill aiming to deregulate cryptocurrency mining in New Hampshire and forbid local officials and state agencies from placing limits on the practice was set for a final vote Thursday before state senators sent it back to committee to give supporters time to work on it and whip up more votes. “I think the bill’s […]
A program serving New Hampshire lakes since 2017 was a casualty of the Trump administration’s massive cuts to AmeriCorps, a federal agency that engages service members around the country. On April 26, members of the Lakes Region Conservation Corps learned their program had been terminated effective immediately. For years, corps members coming to New Hampshire […]