Public Service Electric & Gas, New Jersey’s largest utility, has entered into a joint promotion with BMW North America to offer PSE&G customers $10,000 off of the BMW i3, an electric vehicle carrying an MSRP of $44,445.
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Energy
NJ Rate Counsel report slams controversial ‘nuclear subsidy’
The New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel, the state-run advocacy group for utility rates, has released a study that could jeopardize controversial legislation that would provide subsidies to Public Service Enterprise Group’s nuclear energy program.
Read More »Setting the record straight on pipeline rights of way
Federal regulators recently approved the PennEast Pipeline to deliver clean, reliable and affordable natural gas to millions of families and businesses across the region. That approval — after more than three years of regulatory and scientific reviews — found PennEast Pipeline is in the public need and benefit, and can be constructed...
Read More »Grewal signs onto multistate letter opposing federal expansion of offshore drilling
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has joined a multistate coalition opposing the federal government's expansion of offshore drilling, signing on to a letter that highlights the ways oil and gas exploration off the New Jersey coast would have “devastating” economic and environmental effects.
Read More »NJDEP once again denies PennEast Pipeline application
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has once again denied the PennEast Pipeline Co. application to construct a 116-mile pipeline through New Jersey and Pennsylvania due to what it said was inadequate information regarding environmental compliance in building on freshwater wetlands.
Read More »Clean-energy rally draws 50 to Capitol
New Jersey clean-energy supporters rallied at the state Capitol to urge passage of two bills calling for a rapid transition to a 100 percent clean-energy system statewide.
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Gov. Murphy signs order to harness wind energy
Gov. Phil Murphy has signed an executive order directing the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to implement fully the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act and begin the process of moving the state toward a goal of 3,500 megawatts of offshore wind energy generation by the year 2030.
Read More »New Jersey rejoining RGGI a boon for state’s economy and environment
Gov. Phil Murphy has signed an executive order to put New Jersey back in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative market-based program among several states to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
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Explosive battle looms over PennEast Pipeline project
The proposed PennEast Pipeline may have gotten the approval of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but several New Jersey homeowners, protest groups, state politicians and attorneys are still vowing to get the project shut down before it even starts.
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GZA acquires NJ environmental service firm
Melick-Tully and Associates P.C., a New Jersey-based geotechnical, environmental and geologic services company, has been acquired by GZA GeoEnvironmental, the firm announced today. GZA, an environmental firm based out of Norwood, Mass., said the acquisition will help it strengthen its operations in the mid-Atlantic region.
Read More »PennEast pipeline gets federal approval hours before government shutdown
Hours before a deadlocked U.S. Congress failed to reach a deal to avoid shutting down the federal government, another brewing controversy once again came to the forefront – in a 4-1 vote, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the PennEast Pipeline project.
Read More »PSEG calls for 1 percent rate hike
New Jersey’s largest utility company, Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), has filed a request with the state’s Board of Public Utilities to increase power usage rates so that it can increase overall revenues by roughly 1 percent.
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