Lawmakers delay hearing on bill to rescue nuclear plants

TRENTON » Lawmakers postponed considering a ratepayer-financed rescue package for New Jersey’s nuclear power plants that also calls for clean-energy initiatives.

A Democrat-led state Senate committee postponed a scheduled a hearing on the legislation for Monday. A reason wasn’t given.

The hearing was set to come after the Chris Christie-era bail-out legislation was changed last month to reflect Gov. Phil Murphy’s requests for environmental measures.

Christie, the Republican former governor, rejected the prospect of such measures, but Murphy, a Democrat, says he wants them included.

Documents obtained by the Associated Press showed PSEG, the state’s biggest utility and the operator of two nuclear plants, worked with Christie to shield financial information from the public in the proposal.

That language is still included. The utility says the information is proprietary. of Columbia who are suing to block the repeal of the federal policy.

The policy banned companies from interfering with web traffic or speeds to favor certain sites or apps.

Messages left with internet service providers and the state’s telecommunications association haven’t been returned.

In New York, AT&T said that while it does not “throttle or degrade” web traffic it opposes attempts to create state-based regulations.

A man who admitted killing a teenage girl whose remains were found in the crawl space of a vacant New Jersey home has been sentenced