New Hampshire

  • EPA Awards Sustainability Grants to 58 Student Teams

    January 24th, 2008


    The EPA today awarded more than $500,000 in grants to college students from across the United States, as part of the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) program.


  • Building a Sustainable America—One Community at a Time

    November 8th, 2007


    The EPA awarded $3 million in grants today to cities and universities under its Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS) program.


  • Colleges Get Graded On Sustainability

    October 26th, 2007


    The results are in for the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card, which evaluates American colleges and universities on their green initiatives in eight different areas.


  • Is Way to Go Pay to Throw?

    October 15th, 2007


    New Hampshire has one of the nation’s highest recycling rates (over 20 percent) and only nine landfills, and programs like pay-as-you-throw have been instrumental in these results.


  • U.S. Announces Largest Single Environmental Settlement in History

    October 9th, 2007


    American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants annually at an estimated cost of more than $4.6 billion, pay a $15 million penalty, and spend $60 million on projects to mitigate the adverse effects of its past excess emissions.


  • EPA Awards 20 Environmental Justice Small Grants

    October 3rd, 2007


    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $1 million in grants across the country for improving the environment in low-income communities.


  • First University in Nation to Use Landfill Gas as Primary Energy Source

    August 14th, 2007


    The University of New Hampshire has launched EcoLine, a landfill gas project that will pipe enriched and purified gas from a local landfill to its campus and provide over 80 percent of its energy.


  • Connecticut Bans Boat Waste in Coastal Water

    August 2nd, 2007


    Connecticut is the third U.S. state to ban sewage discharge in coastal waters as Governor M. Jodi Rell has declared the Connecticut coastline a “no-discharge area.”


  • Five Environmental Initiatives Remain in American Express Members Project

    July 20th, 2007


    The Members Project, American Express’ summer contest where members vote on which cause campaign they want to support and the winner receives up to $5 million, still has five Environment & Wildlife projects in the running after reducing entrants to the top 25. In fact, Environment & Wildlife projects currently make up three of the top six continue …


  • Know Before You Go with Beaches 911

    July 3rd, 2007


    Summer and especially the Fourth of July holiday means throngs of beach goers descend upon the surf and the Earth 911 Beach Water Quality section is here to help you “Know Before You Go.” The beach section was established in 2001 through an EPA grant to help provide coastal states with the beach-water-quality, public-notification tools that are required as part continue …