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Press release:

Today [Tuesday, April 14, 2026], Betsy McCaughey, a resident of Greenwich Ct, is suing New York Governor Kathy Hochul and a New York State agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation, for violating the Interstate Commerce Clause of the US Constitution by blocking the approval and construction of the Constitution Pipeline. The lawsuit is filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

McCaughey and other Connecticut residents rely on natural gas to generate 58% of the state’s electricity, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2026 Energy Affordability Report. The energy could be produced using cheap and abundant natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region in Pennsylvania, except that the pipeline needed to convey it across New York State to New England has been repeatedly blocked by former Governor Andrew Cuomo and now Governor Hochul.

Laura Swett, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) testified to Congress on February 2, 2026 that blocking the pipeline is causing  New England consumers to pay as much as 300% higher rates for  natural gas imported from countries such as Canada and Nicaragua.

Previous litigation, brought by the Williams Corporation, which has proposed the pipeline, challenged the state’s use of the Clean Water Act, Section 401, arguing that it should not trump the decisions of FERC, which had approved the pipeline as long ago as 2014.

This lawsuit filed today challenges New York State’s obstruction  on a stronger legal basis, the Interstate Commerce Clause. Blocking this pipeline from conveying natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania to consumers in Connecticut is like closing off Rte 95 , telling trucks they cannot traverse New York to bring goods from New Jersey to Connecticut.  A clear violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause— just the type of state based obstruction the framers intended to prohibit with the US Constitution.      

“Governor Lamont doesn’t have the guts to sue Hochul, a fellow Democrat. I am putting the people of Connecticut first, and I am not waiting until I’m governor.  People need help with their electric bills now,” says McCaughey.

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