This week's state briefs include news on Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.

Kinder Morgan has scaled back a natural gas pipeline proposed for New England, but the changes will have little effect on the overall project.

This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Maine, Maryland, Ohio, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin.

About 50 people attended a FERC scoping meeting on the Atlantic Bridge Project, which would expand the Algonquin pipeline.

Allco Renewable Energy Group has challenged a three-state effort to bring more renewable energy to New England.

This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.

New England governors last week backed away from their 2013 commitment to share the costs of new gas pipelines and electric transmission, announcing a revised regional energy strategy that gives individual states more flexibility.

This week's state briefs include news on Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.

Three New England states are combining their buying power to purchase clean energy resources and transmission to deliver it.

News briefs from the states within the footprint of RTOs. This week we include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as the Canadian province of Manitoba.