STATE HOUSE — Dozens of Western Massachusetts residents piled into Gardner Auditorium on Tuesday morning to oppose a bill that would allow a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan to extend a gas pipeline in an area of protected conservation land of the rural town of Sandisfield.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company LLC, a Kinder Morgan company, is seeking to add a 3.8-mile loop of 36-inch diameter pipe to one of Sandisfield's existing gas pipelines as part of its Connecticut Expansion Project.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed its first spending bill of the year on Tuesday, a popular $80 billion measure for veterans' programs and construction projects on military bases long delayed by infighting over the broader budget.
The 93-0 vote sends the measure into House-Senate negotiations, where it is likely to serve as a vehicle for a $1.1 trillion catchall measure that would include 11 other spending bills comprising the approximately one-third of the budget that passes each year at lawmakers' discretion.
