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EnvironmentEnvironmental protection is a priority for New Hampshire Citizens Alliance (NHCA). We have worked to eliminate the threats to public health and the environment posed by disposal of sludge (bio-solids) and other forms of toxic waste. We have focused on ensuring that local land use decisions safeguard local economies and communities' natural and cultural heritage, and we have worked to educate people about the harmful local effects of global warming. NHCA does this work by assisting local citizens in filing complaints with appropriate agencies, blowing the whistle on political contributions by polluters, and working with allied organizations on statewide environmental initiatives. NHCA also has put environmental concerns in the national spotlight by mobilizing NH residents to bird-dog U.S. presidential candidates in the 1996 and 2000 primary campaigns. For example, during the 2000 presidential campaign, NHCA focused attention on the local impacts of global warming on NH's environment, economy and public health. The dominant greenhouse gas responsible for global warming is carbon dioxide. The major source of carbon dioxide emissions results from fossil fuel usage, most notably, automobile emissions and old, polluting power plants. Since 1998, NHCA also has participated as a member of the Clean Power Coalition, a group of organizations committed to cleaning up fossil fuel-burning power plants in NH. Through press events and other public forums, the Clean Power Coalition has raised awareness among state policy makers and the general public about the need to reduce toxic emissions from NH's three fossil fuel-burning power plants. These plants - Merrimack Station (Bow), Newington Station (Newington) and Schiller Station (Portsmouth) - are among the dirtiest in New England and are the largest source of air pollution in NH. NHCA's role is to get citizens involved. Getting Results: NHCA's Merrimack County Air Quality Awareness Project |
 NH state and federal health officials, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and other experts have documented links between pollution from power-generating plants and asthma attacks, respiratory illness, and even premature death. All three of PSNH's aged fossil fuel facilities - New England's dirtiest - are exempt from the standards set forth in the federal Clean Air Act that would limit this air pollution. |
New Hampshire Citizens Alliance
4 Park Street, Suite 216 Concord, NH 03301
603-225-2097 603-229-3360 (fax)