Avangrid Power Line Rejection Deals Blow to Emissions Goals (2)

The $1 billion, 145-mile-long transmission line project from Avangrid Inc. had secured permits, survived years of legal challenges, and fulfilled the White House’s national clean energy goals.

On Tuesday, about 60% Maine voters didn’t see what was in it for them and rejected the partially built project.

The voter referendum on Central Maine Power’s New England Clean Energy Connect project dealt a blow to the Biden administration’s push for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 2035. And it heaps pressure on federal energy regulators to accelerate their national overhaul of transmission planning, which can be stymied by ...