Annie Ropeik
Reporter: Climate, Energy, Environment, SeacoastAnnie has covered the environment, energy, climate change and the Seacoast region for NHPR since 2017. She leads the newsroom's climate reporting project, By Degrees.
Annie has spent a decade reporting for public radio stations and collaborations across the country, including in Indiana, Delaware and Alaska. Her work has aired on NPR programs, the BBC, CBC and CNN, and earned national honors from the Public Media Journalists Association and state press clubs.
Annie studied classics at Boston University and grew up in Maryland. Her favorite outdoor spot in New Hampshire is Adam's Point on Great Bay in Durham. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
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The Strawberry Banke museum is located at the epicenter of climate change in Portsmouth. -
Critics say the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission inaction on the plan has taken a toll on the efficiency sector.
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New Hampshire has a state Department of Energy for the first time.
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The bill allows towns to now generate up to five megawatts of their own power to lower their energy costs and pass savings on to residents.
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"We are now beginning to be able to attribute the change in extreme events to a changing climate," a researcher at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in North Woodstock told us.
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Mid-Atlantic state officials are urging residents to help eradicate the invasive spotted lantern-fly before it devastates fruit crops. The pest has so far been prevented from spreading in New Hampshire, but state officials say it will likely return.
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The 16-megawatt array is smaller than the energy projects the Site Evaluation Committee typically reviews. But a citizens’ group in Milford petitioned the SEC, earlier this year, to take over consideration of the project from local officials.
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A student quoted in the study told researchers, “People will talk about the polar bears dying before they talk about brown people breathing in dangerous air.”
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The new Union of Concerned Scientists study says projected temperature increases by mid-century will give New Hampshire at least one day a year with the kind of heat that prompts federal agencies to call for safety precautions or a stop to work in outdoor jobs.
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Sununu has lately been a vocal supporter of wind as a climate change solution, but hasn’t issued the mandates many other East Coast states have used to require their utilities to buy into planned offshore projects.
