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The funding, about $2 million total, will go towards assessing and cleaning up sites including a former stable and a former textile processing mill.

Granite Shore Power, which owns Merrimack Station, says the exemption from the federal government means they won’t need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with new regulations months before closing down.

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 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 lawsuit, filed in 2016, seeks to hold Saint-Gobain liable for PFAS chemical pollution in drinking water near their Merrimack facility.

States across the country have been split on whether to allow these kinds of lawsuits.

The bill had bipartisan support in the House and Senate, with those in favor saying it would help protect New Hampshire’s water from pollutants that can leach out of landfills.

The state is trying to reassure environmental advocates in the wake of a controversial federal decision to ease pollution enforcement during the…

State lawmakers will try again to pass restrictions on single-use plastic items in the coming legislative session.The House last year approved a bill…

New Hampshire is getting federal money to study the health effects of toxins near a Superfund site in Berlin and in homes and private wells statewide.The…