New York state’s utility regulator approved a long-term gas plan floated by National Grid that would expand natural gas infrastructure in New York City.

The utility said its plan is based on the region’s appetite for natural gas and includes a new pipeline expansion the state quashed once already. The embrace of the plan by the Public Service Commission comes despite a state climate law mandating New York quit fossil fuels and transition to clean energy.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration has reined in much of the clean energy momentum created in New York under her predecessor, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. With energy prices skyrocketing and the Trump administration pressuring states to use more fossil fuels, a landmark 2019 law that requires New York to get off fossil fuels by 2050 has tak

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