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In a courtroom packed with advocates and residents opposing the project, a lawyer for the Conservation Law Foundation argued that the substation would violate a state law intended to protect communities like East Boston from the burden of industrial infrastructure.
New Englanders are expecting treacherous roads and power outages. Southern New England and the coastline will get mostly rain, and maybe a few inches of snow, with most snow further north.
As of midday Thursday, more than 500,000 customers were in the dark because of the storm.
The spring snowstorm that continues to move through the Monadnock Region has knocked out power for more than 5,000 households and led to the closure of schools and roads throughout
Saying this will require a "multi-day response" to restore power to some 170,000 customers without power, utility crews were calling for help from afar to help them fix the power lines now down across the state from storm damage, while some were digging out from more than a foot of snow, which continued to fall at 4 p.m.