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Utility to pay $53M for blasts that damaged homes, killed 1

by Associated Press
| February 27, 2020 12:05 AM

BOSTON (AP) — A utility company will pay the largest criminal fine ever imposed for breaking a federal pipeline safety law — $53 million — and plead guilty to causing a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts that killed one person and damaged dozens of homes, federal officials said Wednesday.

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