New England Clean Energy Connect

The case focuses on the constitutionality of a year-old law, passed by an overwhelming majority of Maine voters, that prohibits companies that are partially owned by foreign governments from spending on referendum campaigns.

Throughout the trial, attorneys for Avangrid, CMP's parent company, have described project opponents as relentless, obstinate and funded by competitors and electricity generators that would lose market share if the New England Clean Energy Connect is ever completed.

The fate of Central Maine Power's controversial energy corridor through western Maine is now in the hands of the state's highest court.

Maine's top environmental regulator on Tuesday evening suspended Central Maine Power's permit for its controversial transmission corridor through Maine's western woods.

Gov. Janet Mills said she hopes the courts will quickly address whether Central Maine Power can continue construction on a transmission line through western Maine.

Maine voters delivered a decisive rebuke Tuesday to the state's largest utility, Central Maine Power, when they halted construction of its $1 billion transmission corridor through western Maine in a vote of 60% to 40%, as of early Wednesday morning.

State regulators are calling a public hearing on whether they should pull the license they issued for Central Maine Power's transmission line through western Maine.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection on Monday rejected a claim by four lawmakers that tree-cutting in a controversial hydropower corridor under construction by a Central Maine Power Co. affiliate violated permit requirements.

For the past month Maine lawmakers have been considering a slate of bills that could sideline Hydro-Quebec from an upcoming referendum on Central Maine Power's highly controversial transmission project.

The state has opened public comments on the wording of a ballot question aimed at challenging Central Maine Power's controversial transmission project underway in western Maine.