wanted to revive the upstate Constitution pipeline<\/a>, another plan by the Williams Companies.<\/p>\nDEC regulators ultimately ended up approving the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, but nixed the Constitution project \u2014 prompting Williams reps to withdraw their application, Hochul said.<\/p>\n
The Northeast pipeline\u2019s approval drew fury from environmentalists with the Food & Water Watch, who noted it had been opposed by local communities and congressional Democrats, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n
President Trump has forcefully pushed Hochul to approve pipeline projects in New York. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision is a betrayal of New Yorkers,\u201d said Laura Shindell, the group\u2019s director, in a as statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn granting the certification for this pipeline, Governor Hochul has not only sided with Trump, she\u2019s fast-tracked his agenda. Hochul has shown New Yorkers she\u2019d prefer to do Trump\u2019s dirty work rather than protect our waterways from pollution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Hochul\u2019s own Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado \u2014 who plans to challenge her in next year\u2019s Democratic gubernatorial primary \u2014 joined environmental groups in casting it as a \u201cdirty deal\u201d with Trump that\u2019ll threaten the water and fuel climate change.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t protect our planet or our people by bending to Trump\u2019s agenda,\u201d Delgado said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Business groups, however, applauded the move.<\/p>\n
\u201cGovernor Kathy Hochul\u2019s approval of a new gas pipeline is essential to ensuring that New York City has a consistent supply of reliable and affordable energy as we transition to a carbon neutral economy,\u201d said Kathy Wylde, president of the influential Partnership for New York City. <\/p>\n
Environmental groups and many Democrats oppose the pipeline. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cThe possibility of inadequate supply of natural gas over the course of the next few decades has raised serious concerns in the business community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hochul also received criticism from Trump ally Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York), who announced her own candidacy for governor as the pipeline was approved.<\/p>\n
Stefanik argued the about-face was a shameless attempt by Hochul to avoid a potential election-year albatross.<\/p>\n
\u201cHochul the Hypocrite is back at it again: She just approved a pipeline in New York after years of blocking its construction and denying New Yorkers the cheap, clean, reliable energy they deserve,\u201d Stefanik said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Worst Governor in America is reading the tea leaves and knows she\u2019s under water in the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She\u2019s passing gas. Gov. Kathy Hochul greenlit a controversial, President Trump-backed natural-gas pipeline off the Big Apple\u2019s coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19092,153,424,4762,19475,426,57,9,56,63,65,64,16970,58],"class_list":["post-32512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antonio-delgado","tag-donald-trump","tag-elise-stefanik","tag-energy","tag-green-energy","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pipeline","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}