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"...And we ask our Selectmen to consider the appointment of a voluntary energy committee to recommend local steps to save energy and reduce emissions."
-Text from the New Hampshire Climate Change Resolution

"Local energy committees are a wonderful legacy of the Carbon Coalition …I know people up here are anxious to get going. In Ossipee, a town which didn't put the Resolution on the ballot, a student at the Community Technical College is doing an energy audit of the town hall and the selectmen are very excited about it."
-Local business owner in an e-mail exchange with Clean Air-Cool Planet

"Every town in New England should have an energy committee."
- US EPA Reg. Administrator Bob Varney at the NH BIA/OEP Energy Forum

164 towns passed the NH Climate Change Resolution. Find out more here...

BLOG - The Political Climate:
an ongoing commentary on the NH Primary and Climate Change

It's all about the Benjamins ... or is it?

"Concerned citizens showed up at the State House last night to share their energy priorities and ideas with the Governor’s Climate Change Task Force. After listening to two brief presentations from DES about NH specific climate change indicators, projected impacts and task force goals, NH citizens talked back and gave the task force an earful, including..." Read more.