By Joseph Janney Steinmetz (Florida Memory Project) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

View showing the Southernmost House at 1400 Duval St. in Key West, Florida. By Joseph Janney Steinmetz (Florida Memory Project) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.

  • An energy plant in Oregon is at the center of a property tax fight that has lasted for years.
  • North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory vetoed a bill that would have resurrected the state’s coal ash commission that was responsible for overseeing the coal ash cleanup following a spill in 2014.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency will be cleaning 19 homes in Colorado after the homes were found to have high levels of lead contamination.