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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

If you generate one ton or more of food waste per week in New Hampshire, starting in February you will no longer be allowed to dump it in landfills or incinerators. This change isn’t likely to affect households, but it will have a significant impact...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Over the past few weeks, waste disposal sites across the state have become the scene of a meticulous investigation. Trash bags are being torn open, their contents spread out on tables and examined with a fine-tooth comb.This scrutiny is part of the...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Starting this month, New Hampshire will enforce a significant change to its lead law to reduce exposure in buildings constructed before 1978, which is expected to lower the number of young children exposed to lead hazards.The new section of the law...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

New Hampshire’s proposed solid waste rules face a critical checkpoint before reaching legislative offices – a review by the Waste Management Council, an advisory body to the state agency primarily composed of members from the waste industry.After many...

By HALEY CLOUGH

CORINTH — The cleanup of the abandoned Pike Hill Copper Mine, a federal Superfund site, is moving forward with the treatment of contaminated soil and sediment scheduled for late summer and early fall, the Environmental Protection Agency indicated last...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In Andy Chew’s garage, aluminum cans — remnants of seltzers and assorted drinks — are piled high in large bins because it pains him too much to throw them away.Living in Wilmot, N.H., where recycling options are scarce, with the town lacking...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

As testimony on bills targeting landfill safety in New Hampshire continues in both chambers of the legislature, the state Department of Environmental Services maintains its stance against proposed legislation advocating for a four-year moratorium of...

By FRANCES MIZE

WILDER — Last week, Brad Goedkoop, a former Hartford tree warden, was walking on the connector trail between North and South Kilowatt Park when he noticed that against the green, late summer vegetation, the staghorn sumacs along the path were withered...

By FRANCES MIZE

SHARON — Demand for solar panels and heat pumps has skyrocketed, but rapidly approaching deadlines for climate goals in the Twin States underscore a lack of workers who actually know how to install them.“How do I put this bluntly?” said Rob Adams,...

By FRANCES MIZE

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Vermonters are swatting at twice as many mosquitoes this summer than the seasonal average over the last decade. As the climate warms, some scientists say that the pesky population boom is a sign of things to come.To stay safe...

By FRANCES MIZE

ROYALTON — Until midday Thursday, more than two weeks after this month’s historic flooding, customers of the town’s volunteer-run fire district, which brings water to 200 users in South Royalton village, had to boil their water for 60 seconds before...

By ADRIANA MARTINEZ-SMILEY

New Hampshire is asking the officials in charge of its 1,200 water systems to find any service lines that may contain unhealthy levels of lead and copper. It’s part of an effort to meet updated federal water quality standards. In drinking water, the...

By RAY COUTURE 

HANOVER — How will forests in the Upper Valley fare when there are no more ash trees?That question, and specifically what will happen to the fungi that interact with those ash trees as the emerald ash borer continues its expansion into Vermont and New...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Sherri Cheney was awed by the sight of towering mounds of food scraps mixed with ground-up wood chips from demolition debris, reaching a height of at least 7 feet at the Lebanon landfill’s transfer station. These piles of waste were being converted...

VERSHIRE — The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a public meeting Tuesday night to discuss its preliminary cleanup of an abandoned Vershire copper mine.The former Ely Mine sits on about 350 acres off Beanville Road. The conclusion of mining...

By FRANCES MIZE

THETFORD — As anglers cast about Upper Valley’s streams and rivers this spring, Thetford Academy seventh graders had some brook trout to unload last week.About 30 students gathered along the Ompompanoosuc River at the base of the Union Village Dam on...

By FRANCES MIZE

PLAINFIELD — At 2 a.m. last Thursday, owner Norah Lake and her work crew at Sweetland, a 12-acre fruit and vegetable farm in Norwich, were in the orchard, dousing apple, plum and pear trees from a network of irrigation pumps.They hoped encasing the...

By EMMA COTTON

With $140 million of federal money in hand, state officials have launched a sweeping process to inventory and remove lead service lines that connect public drinking water systems to homes, businesses and other entities.Officials with the Vermont...

By FRANCES MIZE

Vermont officials are scheduled to host a series of public hearings on proposed regulations for trapping and for hunting coyotes with dogs. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, along with the state’s Fish and Wildlife Board, proposed the...

WEST LEBANON — The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is advising residents against interfering with young animals this spring. The majority of deer fawns are born in May and June, and the season leads many New Hampshire residents to “fear the...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Center for Ecostudies is requesting help with a backyard tick research project.Biologists with the nonprofit hope to biologically survey upwards of 50 Upper Valley properties, in both Vermont and New...