Updated at 4:04 p.m. ET  The White House has notified the Senate
that President Obama has, as promised, vetoed congressional
legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project.
DMahendra / Creative Commons  The head of a state-funded
watchdog agency is wondering what proposed budget cuts could
mean for the future of environmental oversight in Connecticut.
In question is the future of the Council on Environmental
Quality, which for more than 40 years, has monitored everything
from air to wildlife conditions in the state.  It's a relatively
small line item in the budget: about $180,000. That money funds
two full-time paid positions at the CEQ. There's also a nine-
member board that collects no salary.      The Connecticut
Gological Survey  Following a series of small earthquakes in the
eastern part of Connecticut, WNPR’s Patrick Skahill set out on a
mission to find out what was causing so many to occur over such
a short period of time. Turns out, to fully understand, you have
to go back hundreds of millio