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Mass. environmental activists protest pipeline that would reduce New England energy costs

DEERFIELD, Mass. – A group of environmental activists spent the Martin Luther King holiday protesting plans for a $5 billion New England pipeline that would help reduce energy costs throughout the region. Over the weekend, nearly 80 Bay State residents marched from Northfield to Plainfield along the approximate 34-mile stretch of

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Gas pipeline in rural Sandisfield draws strong opposition at hearing

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