{"id":359081,"date":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359081\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:14:08","slug":"nyc-gas-bills-could-rise-later-under-1-7b-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359081\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Gas Bills Could Rise Later Under $1.7B Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re basically taking out a credit card,\u201d Matthew Silverman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, said. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou don&#8217;t have to pay anything for the next year, and then when that teaser period ends, you get slammed with a bunch of charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> What Would The $1.7 Billion Pay For? <\/p>\n<p>National Grid\u2019s plan includes about $1.7 billion to expand and reinforce its gas system, including upgrades to aging equipment.<\/p>\n<p>More than $60 million would go to the company\u2019s liquefied natural gas facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a large waterfront site in a neighborhood with a long history of industrial pollution. <\/p>\n<p>Greenpoint contains several federal and state Superfund sites, including Newtown Creek, Meeker Avenue, the Greenpoint oil spill and Nuhart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey&#8217;re basically taking out a credit card,\u201d Matthew Silverman, a senior attorney at Earthjustice, said. \u201cYou don&#8217;t have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-359081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359081","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=359081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}