Energy Efficiency Programs Hang in the Political Balance

Sam Evans-Brown — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Republican are working at finding common language on a bill that would weaken or repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. They will have to agree on a version that will get enough votes to overcome a governor’s veto.

EPA Releases Data of Top Greenhouse Gas Emitters in NH

Amy Quinton — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:36:25 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency has released its 2010 data of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the state.

Power plants are at the top of the list.

The EPA collected data from nine different industries that emit greenhouse gases including power plants, pulp and paper mills, landfills and other industrial sources.

All told, they produced five-point nine million metric tons of greenhouse gases in New Hampshire.

About 40-percent of that comes from just one power plant, Merrimack Station in Bow.

It burns coal.