Mayor Walsh has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider its decision to allow construction of a large natural-gas pipeline down Washington and Grove Streets and a metering station across from the West Roxbury quarry to connect it to National Grid's system.

The Globe reports on neighborhood meeting at which residents blasted S.M. Lorusso & Sons' plans to turn the quarry into a receptacle for construction dirt from across the region. At issue: The traffic from all those trucks hauling the fill into the site and possible chemicals in the dirt.