House Committee Information
Committee Name: Environment and AgriculturePosition: Member
Committee Function:It shall be the duty of the Committee on Environment and Agriculture to consider all matters concerning agricultural and farm problems of the state, physical land use including current use, the various agricultural organizations, the protection of the state's environment from forms of pollution other than air or water pollution, waste management issues, and such other matters as may be referred to it.
Personal Biography
Molly Howard is originally from Alaska and moved to New England in 1984. While pursuing careers as a cook and then in higher education and urban planning, she raised two sons in the Boston area. Her younger son was posted in Poland for five months with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
Frequent excursions to the White Mountains and countless weekends with close friends in Cornish, NH planted the seed for her move to New Hampshire, first to the Upper Valley to work at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and then to Hancock.
To prepare for a role in the NH Legislature, she spoke with many voters in Hillsborough District 31 and closely studied New Hampshire's government and politics.
She writes, gardens and wrangles chickens as caretaker at the home of friends.
A lifelong Democrat, her interest in politics started with discussions at her family's dinner table. Molly believes that in a functioning government, the primary responsibility of elected officials is to ensure the well-being of their constituents through legislation and policy.