Molly Rains, New Hampshire Bulletin

The bill would create a committee to consider proposals for new landfills and their effects now heads to Gov. Kelly Ayotte's desk.

House Bill 1718, from prime sponsor Rep. Michael Vose, an Epping Republican, directs the New Hampshire Department of Energy and Public Utilities Commission to create a framework for crediting electric customers for power they export to the grid from batteries charged by renewable power generators, like solar panels.

The committee would consider a proposed landfill’s impacts on public health and safety, traffic and more. The bill would require an applicant to note whether the proposed facility would have a preference for waste generated in New Hampshire.

A bill that Gov. Kelly Ayotte just signed into law prohibits the enrollment of state and county owned lands into timber carbon sequestration projects.

The bill seeks to create a framework in state law for farmers to process meat at their farms or other facilities beside those approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

New Hampshire legislation would prevent towns from regulating data centers in a manner “more restrictive” than other uses allowed in the same district. The bill would also make data centers a permitted land use “by right” in commercially or industrially zoned areas.

The program would create grants of up to $9,500 for home improvement projects to make structures more resilient to the effects of severe weather. But the bill doesn't appropriate any state funds for it.

Mount Washington could one day have a World Heritage Site designation from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO. But it could take years, even decades, and it's not an easy list to make.

Effective May 1, overnight visitors in the Pemigewasset Wildnerness of the White Maintain National Forest will be required to carry bear-proof canisters to store their food, trash, and scented items that may attract bears.

The state's energy department indicated they were interested in supporting advanced nuclear reactors, and were less interested in in several other forms of development identified by the federal government as possible aspects of a campus — including spent fuel storage, fuel processing or reprocessing, data center construction, advanced manufacturing, and more.