The New Hampshire Senate on Thursday killed a bill that would have banned the construction of landfills within two miles of state parks. The bill, House
The state is investigating what may be its largest-ever spill of leachate from a landfill –the North Country Environmental Services facility in Bethlehem,
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New Hampshire is facing a lawsuit for permitting landfill expansions without having an updated plan for reducing solid waste.
The suit, filed Thursday in Merrimack Superior Court, comes from the Conservation Law Foundation.
CLF s state director Tom Irwin has contested several landfill projects in the state in recent years. He said they’ve all been in violation of state statute, which requires the Department of Environmental Services, or DES, to update its solid waste plan every six years.
“DES has been operating with a state solid waste plan that was published in 2003 and expired in 2009,” Irwin said. “Our lawsuit is designed to require DES to come into compliance with the law, start planning in ways that will allow New Hampshire to begin reducing the amount of waste it throws away, and move New Hampshire away from its current overreliance on landfills.”