New Hampshire Cracks The Top 10 In WalletHub’s Greenest States Of 2016

Nice to see the Granite State crack the top 10 in WalletHub's Greenest States of 2016. In fact, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut and New Hampshire all made the top 10.

So, how did WalletHub come up with these rankings? According to their website,

WalletHub’s analysts compared each of the 50 states in terms of 17 key metrics designed to illustrate each state’s environmental quality and the eco-friendliness of its policies.

The 17 'key metrics' that they analyzed are:

• Total Municipal Solid Waste Per Capita
• Air Quality
• Water Quality
• Soil Quality
• Energy Efficiency Score
• Green Buildings
• Percentage Of Energy Consumption
• Energy Consumption Per Capita
• Gasoline Consumption Per Capita
• Water Consumption Per Capita Per Day
• Number of Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Per Capita
• Green Transportation
• Percentage of Recycled Municipal Solid Waste
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita
• Methane Emissions Per Capita
• Nitrous Oxide Emissions Per Capita
• Fluorinated Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Per Capita

WalletHub gets into more details about these 'key metrics' in their methodology section of the study and they give you a list of their sources.

Finally, here are the Top 10 Greenest States according to WalletHub:

This is one of the many reasons why I love living in the state of New Hampshire. People here seem to care about the environment and their surroundings. We have everything here: beaches, mountains, woods, lakes, rivers and I believe that most folks that live here respect and adore nature and certainly put forth an effort to keep New Hampshire clean and environmentally safe.