Going back to 2017, there was a Senate Bill (SB121) that created a Study Commission, chaired by Senator Jeb Bradley, to look at having NH assume responsibility for portions of the federal Clean Water Act. If it had occurred, this would have removed regulatory authority from EPA Region I and bestowed it to NH DES Staff in Concord.
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Bill Would Create a NH Climate Division with the Power to Set a Tax on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
NH House Bill 1664, “gives the department of environmental services (NHDES) the authority to establish a climate action plan, an office of the environmental advocate, and an oversight commission on environmental services.”
Superior Court Judge Says NH Water Rules (That Could Cost 200 Million) Will Halt Dec. 31st
A Superior Court Judge has ruled that there can be no enforcement of new stricter water rules in New Hampshire after Dec 31st while the State Supreme Court reviews the case.
Lawsuit Challenges New Hampshire’s Ridiculous PFAS Water Rule as an Unfunded Mandate
We’ve provided extensive coverage of water issues related to PFOA and PFAS. Up to the recent ruling to impose ridiculously restrictive water standards. A massive fiscal burden crammed down on local municipalities and residents by the state.
If Taxation is Theft, The NH Dept of Environmental Services Wants You to be Their Next Victim
With all the nonsense in the world, it’s easy to lose track of who is trying to screw you. Helpful hint: elected Democrats, about everything, always. We also have state agencies filled with Concord Swamp Rats looking to screw us over as well.
Breaking: NH Joint Legislative Committee Blows 200 Million Dollars (at a minimum) in one Vote
Perhaps you’ve heard about it. New Hampshire considering tighter drinking water standards for PFOA and PFAS. I may have mentioned it. Well, it’s a done deal. A Joint legislative committee has approved the ridiculously low and costly standards.
NH’s New Lower Arsenic Water Standard Is Going to Cost You
House Bill 261 lowers the acceptable level of arsenic in our drinking water to 5 ppb. Much like the PFOA/PFAS scaremongering, there is no large body of sound science (I can find) on how this change will do more than benefit State agencies while wasting millions of dollars.
Proposed Water Standards Would Cost New Hampshire’s Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions
To borrow from Mitch McDeere, the protagonist in John Grisham’s The Firm, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) ridiculous new water standards is a topic that’s “not sexy, but it’s got teeth.” Sharp enough to cost NH taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
NHDES Proposes Ridiculously Restrictive Water Standard for PFOA/PFAS
At ten parts per billion (ppb), a child would need to drink 462 gallons of water a day (for some unknown period of time) to achieve the exposure level to PFOA or PFAS known to result in a likelihood of adverse health effects. New Hampshire’s Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) is recommending 12-15 parts per trillion (ppt).
Merrimack Residents Scaremongering State to Set Ridiculous Standards for Drinking Water
I have to keep dipping into this well because the disinformation campaign won’t let it go. Merrimack had a PFOA contamination problem. People are right to want more information. But the campaign has descended into a circus as “residents” demand unrealistic and unnecessary regulatory standards.
While We’re Mitigating PFAS in Our Water – Dental Floss Raised PFAS in Humans
The latest bugbear in the environmental contamination business is PFOA’s. These are part of a family of chemicals called PFAS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The EPA notes that, PFOA and PFOS have been the most extensively produced and studied of these chemicals. Both chemicals are very persistent in the environment and in the human body … Read more
The NH-D.E.S. Break Schedule, and Other Mysteries of The Known Universe
We have it on good authority that Richard de Seve, State employee over at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, only reads and comments on the articles at the Concord Monitor-online, during his breaks. He did, after all, admit this too me, so what better authority can there be? And who am I to doubt the “word “of a long time Public employee, part time UNH professor, and high ranking member of the SEIU/NH-SEA?
That question answers itself, yes?
So I did a little test. I took another look at his last four years worth of comments at the Concord Monitor, and checked the posting times.
My conclusion? That DES either offers its employes a very liberal rotating break schedule that occurs with greater frequency than J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbits stop to eat or Dick de Seve is simply giving himself a “break” to read and or respond to content at the Concord Monitor, on any given work day, whenever the mood strikes him, in any one of these potential time periods.