Mara Hoplamazian

Intense freeze-thaw cycles undermine roads and allow potholes to form. After a harsh winter, New Hampshire communities are dealing with more than usual.

Lakes Region communities say natural gas moratorium is hurting housing development

As winters warm, days with enough deep snowpack for skiing are disappearing.

It’s tick season in New England. Here’s how to stay safe.

New England utilities and grid operators are working to reduce demand on the grid during times of peak use. In the long run, those efforts could help mitigate how much more infrastructure New England needs to build.

There are more than 15,000 PFAS chemicals. The 2024 federal limits applied to six of them. But if the Trump administration changes those rules, only two could be regulated going forward.

Agreement on landfill issues has been elusive in the State House, though a bill establishing a committee to evaluate landfill sites remains on the table.

The Environmental Protection Agency has long provided funding for communities to redevelop contaminated land. Those remediated sites could be a housing solution, federal officials said.

Lawyers for the Conservation Law Foundation argued federal regulators didn’t fulfill their duty in a recent permitting process to analyze whether PFAS chemicals leaving the plant could harm drinking water for more than 700,000 people.

New Hampshire still has strict regulations for PFAS in drinking water, but advocates say changes on the federal level will threaten public health locally and nationally. Another proposal would also delay implementing stricter limits for two forever chemicals.