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Now We've Heard Udall
Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns |
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24 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics) |
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Granite State Update
Clinton and McCain win New Hampshire primaries, attract green voters |
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09 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:42 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Unseasonably warm weather brought out a record number of voters in New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday -- and is it mere coincidence that the majority of them voted for candidates with real plans to tackle climate change? Well, OK, probably yes. Hillary Clinton was the victor on the Democratic side; she's got a strong platform on climate and clean energy (though her main Dem ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, New Hampshire, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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New Hampshire results
McCain and Clinton win |
David Roberts |
08 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Turnout in NH
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David Roberts |
08 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: elections, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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New Hampshire prediction, guaranteed accurate to the tenth decimal
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David Roberts |
08 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: elections, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Hillary's poisonous NH cloud
Clinton lobbied for tire burning near Granite State |
Glenn Hurowitz |
07 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: air pollution, elections, Hillary Clinton, logging, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics) |
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Re-vamp New Hamp(shire)
Marching for climate action in the Granite State |
Kate Sheppard |
24 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, New Hampshire (all these topics) |
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Take That, Iowa
New Hampshire towns send climate-change message to feds |
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15 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Take That, Iowa New Hampshire towns send climate-change message to feds The votes are in, and the message is clear: New Hampshire is peeved about global warming. Nearly 90 towns approved a nonbinding resolution at their annual meetings this week telling the feds to act on climate change and harrumphing that presidential candidates should make it a priority in their campaigns. About 90 more will ... |
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| Topics: climate, grassroots activism, New Hampshire, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Don't Just Kiss Our Babies
New Hampshire climate activists take advantage of election spotlight |
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22 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Don't Just Kiss Our Babies New Hampshire climate activists take advantage of election spotlight The wee state of New Hampshire hopes to take advantage of its front-running primary election to make climate change a priority at the federal level. In March or thereabouts, at least 180 communities, constituting more than 75 percent of the state, will vote on a resolution that calls for the feds to get off th ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, New Hampshire, news, politics (all these topics) |
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We Came, We Saw, We Concord
New Hampshire latest state to reduce mercury emissions |
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10 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| We Came, We Saw, We Concord New Hampshire latest state to reduce mercury emissions New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is joining the ranks of state leaders taking mercury matters into their own hands. Yesterday, Lynch signed into law a bill that will cut mercury emissions from its power plant by at least 80 percent by 2013. One power plant! New Hampshire is so cute. Most of the lakes and rivers in the state are polluted by mercury, ... |
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| Topics: New Hampshire, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Conquered in Concord
New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds |
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25 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Conquered in Concord New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds At risk of getting stuck with a number of toxic mercury hotspots under the Bush administration's new mercury cap-and-trade rule, New Hampshire's Senate approved a bill yesterday to adopt rules more stringent than the feds' and to ban the state's two coal-fired power plants from trading pollution allowances with cleaner ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, New Hampshire, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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MTBE-Free or Die
EPA attempts to defuse MTBE issue in New Hampshire |
Amanda Griscom |
28 Jan 2004 |
Muckraker |
| Folks who paid close attention to the speeches of New Hampshire primary victor John Kerry in recent weeks would have noticed an emphasis on MTBE -- a gasoline additive that makes fuel burn more efficiently and cleanly, but is suspected to be carcinogenic* and widely known to contaminate groundwater. To outsiders, this may have seemed like a strange environmental issue to spotlight -- why not focus o ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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MTBE-Free or Die
EPA Attempts to Defuse MTBE Issue in New Hampshire |
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28 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: air pollution, elections, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The League's Extraordinary Gentleman
League of Conservation Voters Endorses Kerry |
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26 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The League's Extraordinary Gentleman League of Conservation Voters Endorses Kerry The League of Conservation Voters has officially endorsed John Kerry for president, marking the first time in the organization's history that it has backed a candidate prior to the first primaries. Kerry, four-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, has the best environmental voting record of the Democratic candidates, w ... |
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| Topics: elections, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, politics (all these topics) |
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Spin Cycle
Leavitt Joins Lobbyists to Speak at Industry Conference on Environment |
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21 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: climate, green living, New Hampshire, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Commission: Possible?
Kerry Proposes Commission to Protect Integrity of Environmental Regulation |
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13 Nov 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Commission: Possible? Kerry Proposes Commission to Protect Integrity of Environmental Regulation John Kerry, the Massachusetts senator who has slipped substantially in the ranks of Democratic presidential contenders, sought to reinvigorate his campaign yesterday by returning to one of his keystone issues: environmental protection. Speaking in New Hampshire, Kerry pr ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Live MTBE-Free or Die
New Hampshire Sues 22 Oil Companies Over MTBE Pollution |
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07 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Live MTBE-Free or Die New Hampshire Sues 22 Oil Companies Over MTBE Pollution In a first-of-its-kind move by a state, New Hampshire filed suit against 22 oil companies yesterday, blaming them for contaminating drinking water with the fuel additive MTBE. The companies added the chemical to their gasoline to make it burn more cleanly, but it has leached into more than ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Hampshire, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Wish Granite
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21 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Wish Granite Communities across New Hampshire are invoking the state's Land and Community Heritage Investment Act to preserve open spaces, even though state funding for land conservation and historic preservation faces extreme pressure from a ballooning budget crisis. Under the terms of the act, New Hampshire matches local conservation funding efforts with state money -- an offer more than 100 communities have whole-heartedly sup ... |
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| Topics: New Hampshire, placemaking (all these topics) |
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It's My Way or No Highway?
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10 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| It's My Way or No Highway? The head of the U.S. EPA's New England office has accused New Hampshire of failing to prepare for the environmental impact of the rapid population boom that is expected to follow the widening of Interstate 93, the main commuter highway connecting the state to Boston, Mass. New Hampshire plans to spend $18 million to ease the environmental impacts of the highway project, ... |
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| Topics: business, New Hampshire, placemaking, population, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Natural Born Watt Killers
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18 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Natural Born Watt Killers Are you one of those people who obsessively turns off lights and other electric appliances when leaving the room? If so, it might be time to look for a job with the State of New Hampshire, where Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D) is now offering up to $10,000 to state employees who devise innovative ways to cut the state's annual $18.5 million energy bill. The initiative was born out of a long ... |
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| Topics: energy, energy efficiency, New Hampshire, news (all these topics) |
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Jeanne Genie
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19 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Jeanne Genie In the absence of federal leadership on climate change issues, New Hampshire yesterday passed a precedent-setting bill to curb global warming. The measure, which was approved 21-2 by the state Senate, was supported by a broad bipartisan coalition, the state's largest environmental groups, and its largest utility, Public Service Company of New Hampshire. It would require Public Service to re ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, New Hampshire, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Live Tree or Die
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22 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Live Tree or Die In what will be one of the largest nonprofit land purchases in New England history, the federal and New Hampshire governments, the Trust for Public Land, and the Nature Conservancy are poised to buy 171,500 acres of land along the New Hampshire-Canada border from the International ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, logging, Nature Conservancy, New England, New Hampshire, Northeast, toxics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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On With the No-Show
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Ben White |
31 Jan 2000 |
Muckraker |
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| Topics: elections, logging, Muckraker, national forests, New Hampshire, politics (all these topics) |
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Whom Do We Blame, as We Watch Nature Dry Up?
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Donella H. Meadows |
16 Aug 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Early this summer, long before the word "drought" was mentioned in the media, our household of farmers was ready to strangle the weather forecasters. "A gorgeous sunny day coming up," they warble. "Another beeyootiful weekend!" To us that means a day of blistering sun, a beeyootiful weekend of irrigating. "City folk!" we mutter, as the forecasters burble on about sun and we p ... |
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| Topics: climate, food and agriculture, New Hampshire (all these topics) |
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