Energy & Environment
From the Mount Washington Valley to the Seacoast, New Hampshire’s way of life and economy are rooted in our natural surroundings. We should all work to leave our environment better than we found it by promoting clean energy, supporting environmental protection, and directly confronting the existential threat of climate change.
As your Representative in Congress, I am committed to combating climate change and making sure that we protect our natural resources for generations to come. On the New Hampshire Executive Council, I worked to secure investments for solar, wind, biomass, hydro, and geothermal projects across New Hampshire. I am focused on maintaining clean energy incentives and tax credits to ensure that the Granite State leads the way in developing a robust clean energy economy.
I strongly oppose pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the Clean Power Plan, and rolling back protections for our water and air—which have undermined critical environmental protections. I believe it is critical that Congress develop and pass thoughtful, innovative solutions to the climate crisis before it’s too late to mitigate the worst effects of the catastrophic changes that are already upon us. We must act now to put our state and our nation on a pathway to a more sustainable future.
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Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) in a letter urging Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought to reinstate a $5 million grant to Brayton Energy, a New Hampshire-based small business that specializes in the development of advanced power and energy technologies. The U.S.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Senators Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and Maggie Hassan (NH) in calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue its efforts to remediate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination at the Tinkham Garage Superfund Site in Londonderry and to ensure 89 residents have access to safe drinking water.
The New Hampshire Congressional delegation sent a letter to U.S. Department of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin opposing the Trump administration’s move to end the Solar for All program and unlawfully rescind the existing grant for New Hampshire.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), alongside Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), a lead negotiator of the water provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure law, Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Goodlander applauded the release of more than $9.4 million from a bipartisan infrastructure law program, which Pappas helped pass, to help Granite State communities and private well owners address contamination from per- and poly-flu
Following Congressman Chris Pappas’s (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Congressional Maple Caucus, call for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reinstate grants delivered by the Acer Access and Development Program (Acer), funding for the Acer program has
This morning at 1:45 AM, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) delivered the following remarks on the House floor before voting against Republicans’ reconciliation bill:
“I rise tonight because health care is on the line, and so is the well-being and the dignity of the people I serve in New Hampshire.
The phones in my office won’t stop ringing because people I represent are beyond angry about the proposal to slash Medicaid.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), along with U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and U.S. Representative Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), today welcomed the announcement of over $2 million in federal funds they helped secure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up contaminated Brownfield sites in Nashua, Milford and Concord. New Hampshire has received more than $72 million in Brownfield funding since the program began in 1994.
This week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), alongside Representatives Mike Lawler (NY-17), Haley Stevens (MI-11), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), and Pat Ryan (NY-18) introduced the PFAS-Free Procurement Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing harmful chemical exposure by prohibiting the procurement of products containing perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) or perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), commonly known as PFAS.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) joined 58 of their colleagues in a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Senior Official Performing the Duties of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Cameron Hamilton demanding answers on the termination of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and the risk that halting approved BRIC projects poses to vulnerable communities in New Hampshire and across the country.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) held a roundtable conversation with leaders of Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAPSC) to discuss how the Trump administration’s severe cuts to public health funding and freeze on federal grants is hurting New Hampshire service providers and vulnerable Granite Staters that rely on them. Roundtable participants included CAPSC CEO Betsey Andrews Parker, Chief Program Officer Jamie Swan, Chief Financial Officer Leslie Craigen, Chief Advancement Officer John Moynihan, Interim Head Start Director Charna Ave