A Connecticut judge on Thursday allowed the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to continue its review of a controversial gas expansion project in Brookfield, while leaving the door open for opponents to appeal the agency’s final decision. The decision by New Britain Superior Court Judge Matthew Budzik dismissed a lawsuit brought by town officials and the environmental group Save the Sound earlier this year. That lawsuit objected to a decision by DEEP that denied the groups’ efforts to intervene against a proposed expansion of the Iroquois Gas Transmission System. The project involves the addition of two gas-fired compressors to an existing compressor station in Brookfield, which would allow Iroquois to push an additional 125 million cubic feet of gas each day through its regional pipeline to New York City. Pipeline officials say that some of that gas may also be delivered locally in Connecticut. The $272 million project has already received approval from regulators in New York and Washington, D.C. The final step in the approval process is DEEP’s consideration of air quality permits for the two new compressors. Last summer, the agency issued draft permits indicating its tentative support for the project.

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