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Road conditions are deteriorating and power outages are growing as parts of the northeastern U.S. cope with the first big wintry storm of the season

The governors of most of New England’s states appeared to have been absent from what New York’s governor billed as an emergency summit on COVID-19 among his counterparts in the northeast this weekend. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont was on the call, which comes amid a nationwide surge of the virus, but not Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker or the governors...

Federal officials announced a plan Tuesday to reduce pollution in one of the largest estuaries in the Northeast. In the draft Clean Water Permit for the Great Bay in New Hampshire, the Environmental Protection Agency calls for a dozen communities that ring the bay to reduce the amounts of nitrogen going into the waters, rather than focusing on one community…