KINGSTON, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. Josh Riley’s motion to have the Public Service Commission reconsider Central Hudson’s gas and electricity rate hikes should be denied, according to official filings by the company and Department of Public Service staff.

The utility and the department submitted those filings on Sept 25 in response to Riley’s Sept. 11 motion to reconsider the rate hikes. Both the company and the Department of Public Service, in their filings, said a hearing should not be granted on the congressman’s motion.

“The Riley Rehearing Petition fails to meet the standard for granting rehearing set forth in (law) because it neither presents any errors of law or fact sufficient to grant rehearing nor any new circumstances that warrant a different determination,” Central Hudson said in

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