Pipeline builder: Politics trump science in Cuomo decision

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Political wrangling over fracking in New York is getting in the way of a perfectly sound pipeline project there, a company building a major line through the Empire State said Monday.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration rejected the Constitution Pipeline Co.’s application Friday to build a pipeline to ship natural gas from the Marcellus shale fields in Pennsylvania to the Northeast.

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