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By Rick Pezzullo for The Northern Westchester Examiner The Town of Yorktown was slapped with an Article 78 proceeding Friday by a Shrub Oak homeowner who alleged public parkland is illegally being leased on Stoney Street to make room for the controversial expansion of a gas transmission pipeline in the area. (View full report)

Brandon Lovoie, The Guardian View full report

Published: Friday, March 27, 2015 Federal regulators have asked the developer of a planned natural gas pipeline in Ohio to reroute the project to avoid populated areas.

By Alison Rose Levy / Alternet Nuclear safety expert: “We’re talking tens of millions of people who could be endangered.” A gas explosion leveled two buildings in New York’s East Village this past week, with two neighboring structures damaged, one still at risk for collapse, and 22 people injured, four of them severely. The fire…

Reported by Sean Adams – CBS New York CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — On one side, there were residents who fear a catastrophic explosion. On the other side, there were hard hats hungry for jobs. View full report

Elizabeth Ganga – lohud.com CORTLANDT – Opponents of an expanded natural gas pipeline running through Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties struggled to be heard Monday evening over a rally by union supporters of the Spectra Energy project before a hearing on the environmental study. Read the full article

By Rick Pezullo – theexaminernews.com Three grassroots groups are calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to withdraw what they feel is a “fatally flawed” Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a planned natural gas pipeline that would extend from New York to Massachusetts. Read the full article

Reported By Carolyn Fortino – fios1news.com Some question the safety of Algonquin Pipeline plan, while proponents say it would generate jobs Watch video of report  

By westchester.news12.com Residents in northern Westchester are upset about plans to build a new gas pipeline that would stretch from New England to the Hudson Valley. Read the full article

By David Giambusso – capitalnewyork.com Dozens of local elected officials on Monday asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its draft environmental impact statement on the expansion of the Algonquin gas pipeline, saying it ignored significant environmental concerns. Read the full article

By Ellen Cantarow – Truthout Unless an extension is granted, concerned citizens have only until September 29 to comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the Algonquin Pipeline Extension pushing fracked gas through sensitive regions in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island – creating environmental and nuclear hazards. Read the full article

TJN – lohud.com Spectra Energy’s moving apace with a plan to expand its pipeline from Ramapo to Stony Point, under the Hudson, and through Westchester and Putnam. Federal approvals and hearings are underway for Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market Project — called AIM. Read the full article  

By Elizabeth Ganga – www.lohud.com Foes are expected to turn out en masse at a public hearing Monday night Read the full article