TRENTON -- Consumer groups are lining up against proposed legislation that they say could leave ratepayers on the hook for the cost of building a nuclear power plant in the Garden State.
The bill, called the New Jersey Energy Reliability and Affordability Act, cleared the state Assembly's Telecommunications and Utilities Committee on Dec. 11, moving on to the Assembly State and Local Government Committee.
"Our families can't afford it," Dena Mattola Jaborska, executive director of New Jersey Citizen Action, said at a press conference prior to the hearing. "The seniors can't afford it, and the large companies in our state cannot afford the five-digit increase that would ensue from this legislation."
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