Will New Jersey OK a controversial pipeline?

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FOSSIL FUELS

• New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill won’t say if she plans to approve revived plans for a controversial natural gas pipeline through the state after a meeting to approve a needed construction license is abruptly canceled. (E&E News)

• A Boston-area liquefied natural gas terminal will be needed beyond the 2030 expiration of its current contracts to keep the region’s gas system stable, utilities tell Massachusetts regulators. (RTO Insider)

• Republican state lawmakers in Delaware are pushing for the revival of a coal power plant that shut down a year ago, though the facility owner says bringing back a coal-burning operation is not on the table. (Spotlight Delaware)

AFFORDABILITY

• Though Massachusetts has the highest energy bills in the continental U.S., the 13% of households that are served by nonprofit municipal electric utilities have average bills far lower than customers of investor-owned utilities. (Boston Globe)

CLIMATE

• As Vermont defends its climate superfund law in court, work is already underway to calculate how much the state will require fossil companies to pay as compensation for damages caused by climate change. (Boston Globe)

NUCLEAR

• In New Hampshire, home to the Seabrook nuclear power plant, recent calls to develop more nuclear energy revive old debates about how to dispose of spent fuel. (New Hampshire Bulletin)

DATA CENTERS

• A coalition of nonprofits ask federal regulators to block data center developer TeraWulf’s purchase of a Maryland power plant because the seller failed to disclose Google’s ownership stake in TeraWulf. (Utility Dive)

• The quick collapse of a secretive plan to build a data center in Lewiston, Maine, exemplifies the broader debate ongoing in the state about the potential environmental impacts of the facilities. (Bangor Daily News)

SOLAR

• West Hartford, Connecticut, makes progress toward its goal of using 100% clean energy by 2050 by installing a solar array on a municipal building and deploying bins to collect food scraps that are then used to create electricity and compost. (Hartford Courant)

• Pennsylvania’s cumbersome residential solar permitting rules can add more than $6,000 to the cost of a typical system, likely slowing adoption, an environmental group finds. (WESA)

BIOMASS

• Energy firm Hartree Partners asks a Connecticut judge to block a state law that would remove renewable energy credentials from its biomass plants. (Hartford Business Journal)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Canary Media is turning 5! — Eric Wesoff

• How a community solar breakthrough took shape in Illinois — Jeff St. John

• These Palo Alto kids are pushing the city to promote induction stoves — Alison F. Takemura

• This spring has been a record season for renewables — Kathryn Krawczyk