Nearly a decade ago, during the initiation of the Interstate 93 widening project in New Hampshire, the state Department of Transportation conducted an environmental impact study, which identified four watersheds…
New Hampshire
New Hampshire’s Hazardous Waste Coordinator Certification Program
The traditional approach of obtaining environmental compliance through inspection and enforcement has proven to be an effective tool yet is not a complete solution. There are too many facilities in…
New Hampshire’s Cookies & Climate Change
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) recognizes that climate change is real, serious, and primarily caused by human activities – and that New Hampshire residents are experiencing its…
New Hampshire Issues Compliance Checklist for Emergency Generators
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) Air Resources Division recently released a list of rules to assess whether emergency generators are in compliance with state requirements. All fuel-burning…
New Hampshire Showers Better in October
In light of the recent drought in the state, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) has partnered with U.S. EPA’s WaterSense program to conserve water by proclaiming October…
SCOTUS Denies Corporate Appeal, Sustaining $236M MTBE Verdict for NH
After more than a decade of litigation by New Hampshire (NH) versus Exxon, et al., the U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to take the company’s appeal of a $236…
Partners for Meeting State Research Needs
This document provides brief examples of states using EPA research and resources through the Office of Research and Development to address environmental concerns.
States, EPA, and Others Partner to Establish Stream Monitoring Networks
EPA is working with states, tribes, river basin commissions, its regional offices and other entities to establish Regional Monitoring Networks (RMNs) for freshwater wadeable streams. The objectives of the RMNs…
Seventeen State Governors Commit to Clean Energy Accord
In an historic move, 17 state Governors this week signed the Governors’ Accord for a New Energy Future. Democratic and Republican signatories to the accord commit that their states will…
2012 State Innovations
This report looks at how states are devising a variety of forward-thinking solutions to pressing challenges, with approaches range from simple to complex, and from narrowly focused to cross-media in…
