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Healey isn’t buying it, though. Her office has filed a friend-of-the-court brief siding with the Conservation Law Foundation’s challenge of the surcharge and one of her staff lawyers is expected to make a brief argument before the state’s highest court on Thursday.
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“This issue is at the core of whether New England continues to decarbonize its energy platform or lock into fossil fuels for another generation,” said Bradley Campbell, Conservation Law Foundation’s president. “The last thing the government should be doing is providing a subsidy to natural gas pipelines, especially when that subsidy is against the interests of families and businesses paying their electricity bills.”
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