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Wasting Our Waterways

Industrial facilities dumped 1,788 pounds of toxic chemicals into New Hampshire’s waterways, according to a new report released today by Environment New Hampshire. Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act also reports that 226 million pounds of toxic chemicals were discharged into 1,400 waterways across the country.

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1,788 Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Dumped into New Hampshire’s Waterways

Industrial facilities dumped 1,788 pounds of toxic chemicals into New Hampshire’s waterways, according to a new report released today by Environment New Hampshire.

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A new chance to protect our waters

Protections for the streams that feed our great waterways and the wetlands that clean them are crucial to maintaining our quality of life. Our waterways like the Connecticut are hallmarks of our state. The Monadnock Region depends on our waterways for drinking water and recreation. Without adequate protections, we risk losing these invaluable assets.

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New Report: Lamprey, Great Bay Impaired by Mercury Pollution from NH and Midwest Power Plants.

Five rivers flowing into the Great Bay are contaminated with Mercury—according to the new Environment New Hampshire report, Dirty Energy’s Assault on our Health: Mercury. The report found that power plants in New Hampshire emitted 312 pounds of mercury pollution in 2009. Midwestern plants emitted over 55,000 pounds of pollution threatening the New Hampshire forests.

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New Report: 232 Million Pounds of Toxics Discharged into Waterways

Industrial facilities dumped over 42,800 pounds of toxic chemicals into New Hampshire’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment New Hampshire: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act.

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Environment New Hampshire Warns The Lakes Region Is At Risk Of Increased Water Pollution

Streams and wetlands in New Hampshire are at risk of unlimited pollution, according to a report released today by Environment New Hampshire, Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It.

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Courting Disaster

For decades, the Clean Water Act protected the Nation’s surface water bodies from unregulated pollution and rescued them from the crisis status they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now these vital protections are being lost.

Report | Environment New Hampshire Research & Policy Center

Wasting Our Waterways: Toxic Industrial Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act

Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year – threatening both the environment and human health. According to the EPA, pollution from industrial facilities is responsible for threatening or fouling water quality in more than 10,000 miles of rivers and more than 200,000 acres of lakes, ponds and estuaries nationwide.

Result

Keeping mercury out of our waters.

New Hampshire’s waterways will be less contaminated by mercury pollution thanks to legislation we worked to pass — great news for every New Hampshire mom and dad, given mercury’s effects on how kids think, learn and behave.