BOSTON — On the fifth anniversary of the Merrimack Valley gas disaster, members of the state’s congressional delegation are pressuring federal regulators to set tough new safety restrictions on natural
Five years after overpressurized gas traveled through underground lines fueling fires and explosions across the Merrimack Valley new legislation aims to prevent that from ever happening again.
On yesterday’s fifth anniversary of natural gas fires and explosions that rocked Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, members of the state’s federal legislative delegation called on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to “strongly implement” the safeguards included in the Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act. The act, which became law in 2020, is named […]
One preventable disaster of this magnitude is one too many. That’s why we must have appropriate laws in place to ensure that nothing like what happened to three local communities will ever occur again.