Environment

Invasive jumping worms are now found all over NH, and they destroy soil and change ecosystems.

The federal government wants to kill one owl to save another.

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.

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.

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 bill proposes that wildlife data must be collected with documented landowner permission to be usable. Conservationists say that could negate previous records or complicate future data collection.

The Emergency Drought Assistance Program is available to help lower-income households manage the expenses associated with dry wells.

The end of the holiday season has an unlikely beneficiary: goats.

A recent college graduate from the town that was once home to the Saint-Gobain plastics facility is working with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services on an experimental trial in myco-remediation, or the use of fungi to clean up pollutants from a contaminated region — a relatively new area of study.

The plan is the first large-scale coordinated effort to address climate-warming emissions in New Hampshire since 2009. It includes strategies like supporting small-scale public transportation, protecting forest land, and improving energy efficiency.