{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://goodlander.house.gov/media/press-releases/goodlander-demands-answers-from-liberty-utilities-as-company-refuses-to-serve-n-h-natural-gas-customers/", "Goodlander Demands Answers from Liberty Utilities as Company Refuses to Serve N.H. Natural Gas Customers", "2026-06-11", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "House", "NH", "Maggie Goodlander", "G000604", "goodlander.house.gov", "goodlander", "https://goodlander.house.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) sent a letter demanding detailed information from Liberty Utilities on its refusal to serve natural gas customers in New Hampshire\u2019s Lakes Region. The decision has caused unacceptable delays and dramatic cost increases for new homes in an area already hit hard by the housing crisis.\n\nLiberty Utilities, a regulated utility company which provides natural gas service in New Hampshire, has confirmed that it will not connect new natural gas customers, and may reject requests to reconnect from existing customers in as many as a half dozen towns in New Hampshire, including Franklin, Canterbury, and Northfield.\n\nGoodlander, who previously took on corporate monopolies in the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, sounded the alarm last month about the startling affordability impacts of Liberty\u2019s sudden decision.\n\n\u201cTens of thousands of hardworking Granite Staters and New Hampshire small businesses rely on Liberty Utilities to fulfill its obligation to provide safe, adequate, and affordable natural gas service,\u201d said Congresswoman Goodlander. \u201cSo why on earth is this foreign-owned, for-profit monopoly suddenly jacking up costs for New Hampshire by denying gas services to our cities, towns, families, businesses, and developers? Businesses, concerned citizens, and local leaders deserve to get answers and solutions from Liberty \u2014 I won\u2019t quit until we get both.\u201d\n\nYou can read the full letter HERE.\n\nThe letter follows a meeting Goodlander convened earlier this year in Franklin, featuring local officials, residents, planners, developers, consumer advocates, clean energy stakeholders, and a representative from Liberty. Liberty\u2019s representative committed to providing answers and transparency regarding the company\u2019s refusal to connect new customers.\n\nGoodlander has worked to reign in soaring profits from investor-owned utility companies and to lower costs for Granite Staters, as runaway utility profits drive utility bills higher and higher. She helped introduce the Lowering Utility Bills Act, which reins in the runaway profits of for-profit utilities, which are raising utility prices across the country by demanding exorbitant profits and forcing consumers to pay for outrageous expenses like private jet rides, lobbying, and contributions to politicians. She also pressed the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, urging the Commission to reject a 43.4% rate hike requested by Eversource as part of the monopoly utility\u2019s most recent rate case.\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-16T06:53:21Z", "2026-06-16T06:55:02Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://goodlander.house.gov/media/press-releases/goodlander-demands-answers-from-liberty-utilities-as-company-refuses-to-serve-n-h-natural-gas-customers/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7129770237952471, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}