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| Environment New Hampshire applauded the U.S. Senate today for rejecting Senator Murkowski’s Congressional Review Act resolution (S.J.Res. 26). | |
| As oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico and just days before a major U.S. Senate vote on legislation that would block new rules requiring cars to use less oil, a new analysis finds that California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania would increase their oil consumption the most under the Senate bill – by as much as 62 million gallons in California alone in 2016. | |
| At the release of Environment New Hampshire's environmental scorecard of 2009, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter received our environmental champion award. In a politically charged and gridlocked Congress, Environment New Hampshire was still able to score dozens of votes in the House and Senate. | |
| The report shows that state-based clean energy policies, along with recent federal policies initiated in the states, will drive emission reductions of roughly 536 million metric tons (CO2 equivalent) of global warming pollution per year by 2020. That’s more pollution that is currently produced each year by all but eight of the world’s nations. | |
| The report finds that New Hampshire’s pollution declined by 13 percent since 2004, the year in which pollution levels began to peak in many states | |
| Environment New Hampshire releases a report concerning the national security, economic and environmental benefits of plug-in hybrids. A Veteran Affairs Organization and a small business owner share their thoughts on plug-in hybrids. | |
| Environment New Hampshire released a new report documenting that the average temperature in Concord in 2007 was 0.6°F above the historical average. The year 2007 tied for the second warmest year on record globally and was the 10th warmest year on record in the United States. These record temperatures are part of a trend toward rising temperatures resulting from global warming. | |
| The nation's first auction of pollution permits under a global warming emissions cap was launched today by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI is a collaboration of ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states that have united to establish a program to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants to 10 percent below current levels by 2019. | |
| Governor Lynch today signed into law a landmark 10-state program, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants throughout the region. | |
| Global warming pollution is on the rise and New Hampshire is not on track to meet pollution reduction goals set seven years ago by New England governors, according to new report released today by environmental groups, scientists and legislative leaders. | |
| Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice” when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment New Hampshire report makes it clear that New England is already experiencing extreme downpours and heavy snowstorms much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall or snowfall are now 61 percent more frequent in the New England than they were 60 years ago. | |
| A regional Report Card released today by a coalition of environmental advocates in the New England and Eastern Canada gives New Hampshire a C- for its actions to reduce global warming pollution. The state received a D+ in 2006 and a C- in 2005. The improvement this year came mainly from passing key legislation to encourage cleaner energy sources and Governor Lynch’s commitment to issue an executive order to set up a task force to produce a climate action plan next year. | |
| We applaud Senators Lieberman and Warner for their leadership on global warming. Time is running out to stop the worst effects of global warming, and this bill is an important starting point for action. | |
| Public transit use in New England reduced global warming pollution more than 1.7 million metric tons in 2005, equivalent to taking 310,000 cars off New England’s roads for the year, yet New Hampshire has so far failed to take advantage of these benefits, according to a new report, Cool Moves, released today by Environment New Hampshire and Clean Water Action. | |
| The average temperature in New Hampshire was 2.9 degrees F above average in 2006, according to a new report released today by Environment New Hampshire. Environment New Hampshire said this warmer-than-normal weather is indicative of what New Hampshire can expect with continued global warming. | |
| With possible energy shortages this summer and in coming years, New Hampshire should take advantage of many opportunities to reduce its biggest uses of energy and tap local sources of renewable energy using technologies available today, according to a report released today by Environment New Hampshire and Clean Water Action. | |
| Tailpipe standards already in place in 11 states across the country would reduce global warming emissions by nearly 400 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction level equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year, according to a new report released today by the Environment New Hampshire. | |
| Global warming pollution in New Hampshire increased by 50% between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment New Hampshire. | |
| In a landmark decision in one of the most important environmental cases ever heard by the Supreme Court, the Court ruled today that the Clean Air Act gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants from cars. | |
| On Friday, April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming, is expected to issue the second volume of its Fourth Assessment Report on global warming. | |
| The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| As the new home of NHPIRG's environmental work, Environment New Hampshire may be contacted regarding this release. Concord, New Hampshire —The unprecedented heat waves in the past few years are part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in New Hampshire, according to a new report released today by the New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group (NHPIRG). | |
| CONCORD—Global warming pollution in New Hampshire jumped 163% between 1960 and 2001, according to "The Carbon Boom," a new analysis of government data released today by the New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group (NHPIRG). Increased coal emissions from coal-burning power plants and from oil emissions were responsible for 30% and 59% of this increase, respectively. | |
| Commuting is responsible for more than a quarter of all vehicle travel and is a significant contributor to global warming. The "Driving Global Warming" reports released today in five New England states use US Census Bureau survey data to show that commuters living in far-away suburbs making long-distance commutes make a disproportionately large contribution to global warming. | |
| CONCORD – As officials from New Hampshire and eight other northeastern states meet this week to finalize a precedent-setting agreement to reduce global warming pollution from power plants, environmental and consumer groups warned that loopholes in the plan could prevent it from achieving promised emissions reductions. | |
| Concord – As the governors from most of the New England states gather this weekend in Mystic, Connecticut for their annual meeting, a new report released today has found that they are far off the pace to hit regional targets for reducing carbon pollution that were set two years ago. New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson is not expected to attend the meeting. | |
| A coalition of more than 100 public health and environmental groups from across New England today credited Gov. Shaheen and other New England governors for committing their states to ambitious reductions in global warming pollution and said they expected to see progress toward that goal at a meeting of New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers in Quebec City today and tomorrow. | |
| Citing perilously high levels of airborne toxic pollution in every county in the state, NHPIRG and the Audubon Society of New Hampshire today called on the Shaheen administration to adopt new rules, to begin in 2006, to steadily ratchet down limits on auto pollution and make zero-emission vehicles available for sale in New Hampshire. | |