EcoWatch: In a win for climate activists and the anti-fracking movement, and a blow to fossil fuel polluters and the federal regulatory agencies that enable them, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a 124-mile fracked gas pipeline.
The Constitution Pipeline Project--a joint venture between four oil and gas companies--was proposed to transport fracked natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango,...