PFAS

Federal rules to reduce the levels of "forever chemicals" in drinking water are getting delayed.

Laurene Allen, who co-founded the advocacy group Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water, has been advocating for remediation and justice in communities impacted by PFAS contamination for almost a decade.

The "forever chemicals" are commonly used to make products stain- and water-resistant.

La ACLU de NH está solicitando récords federales para ver si ICE planea utilizar la prisión de Berlin para tener a los inmigrantes detenidos.

Proponents say the current law doesn't provide enough time to consider the persistence of the chemicals in the environment, and the time it can take for their health effects to be noticeable.

Alrededor de 40 personas de las comunidades de fe de NH se juntaron para una vigilia afuera de la oficina del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas en el downtown de Manchester.

The science and technology company Battelle is running the liquid left over from its “PFAS Annihilator” through testing in Massachusetts to make sure the chemicals are gone.

The company says it will demolish the facility over the next year. But state regulators want more clean up of PFAS chemicals in soil and groundwater on site.

The Coakley Landfill superfund site covers 92 acres of land in Greenland and North Hampton in New Hampshire.

NH State Rep. Rosemarie Rung pointed out that in New Hampshire those settlement funds will be directed to the Drinking Water and Groundwater Trust Fund, which will provide loans and grants to public water systems where levels of PFAS, a class of harmful man-made chemicals, are above standards.