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Trump, New York governor may discuss Constitution gas pipeline
Mar 13, 2025 1:24 PM

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) -

Donald Trump will meet New York Governor Kathy Hochul on

Friday morning, the U.S. president said, for talks that may

include potentially reviving the Constitution natural gas

pipeline in the Northeast.

The pipeline would bring gas from Pennsylvania's drilling

fields to New York, but Williams Cos ( WMB ) canceled the

project in 2020 following opposition from politicians and

environmentalists in New York.

Trump said a pipeline would lower the region's energy

prices. But it remains uncertain how it could be approved.

"Kathy Hochul, very nice woman; she's coming in tomorrow

morning at nine o'clock to meet me on that and other things,"

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, in an apparent

reference to the project.

"I hope we don't have to use the extraordinary powers of the

federal government to get it done. But if we have to, we will,

but I don't think we'll have to."

Such pipelines are a top priority for Trump and the leaders

of his Energy Dominance Council co-chaired by Interior Secretary

Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

Representatives for Williams did not respond to a request

for comment.

Earlier this week, Hochul demanded Trump reverse U.S.

tariffs on Canadian energy imports, arguing the tariffs and

Canadian retaliatory actions threatened to drive up electricity

and heating costs for New Yorkers.

"I reached out to the president yesterday and said I want to

carry on the conversation that we had in the Oval Office a

couple weeks ago," Hochul told reporters.

"I have a lot on my agenda. We talked about infrastructure,

Penn Station. We talked about - he knows I want to talk about

congestion pricing again. I want to talk about, you know, our

concerns about energy in light of the tariffs."

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