Thursday, 1 March 2018 ()
The Boston suburban home of Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., may soon be heated by Russian gas from a Siberian project backed by Chinese investors. How natural gas produced by Yamal, a Russian company subject to U.S. sanctions for Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region, reached the blue-blood streets of Boston is a classic example of political ideology winning out over rational public policy. The situation is all the more confounding given the region’s proximity to America’s largest natural…