With only hours to go at the end of its session, the Massachusetts legislature passed a major energy bill that boosts Canadian hydropower and offshore wind.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) endorsed a plan in which electric ratepayers would help finance natural gas pipeline expansion.

At the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA) Annual Environmental Conference last week, panelists discussed the presidential election.

Maine Public Utilities Commission staff said that historic low prices for natural gas have removed the urgency for more pipeline capacity.

FERC closed its monthly open meeting to the public, allowing only guests, their staff and credentialed members of the press inside commission headquarters.

A discussion at NECA’s 23rd Annual New England Energy Conference focused on the outsized role natural gas (and pipelines) play in the region’s power mix.

FERC found “no significant impact” in its environmental assessment of the Atlantic Bridge natural gas pipeline expansion project.

FERC said the EIS will undertake an environmental review to elucidate potential impacts of the Access Northeast pipeline.

Environmental groups asked the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside the three FERC orders that approved the Constitution Pipeline.

FERC turned aside attempts to block Spectra Energy’s Algonquin pipeline expansion, allowing construction to continue on the 37-mile span.