Dubuque Rail Bridge, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Dual Freq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
- Railroad bridges across the country are not receiving necessary repairs, and this could become a big problem as more oil trains roll across the country.
- Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is asking Congress to add oil train safety provisions in the final transportation bill to improve safety along routes in Wisconsin used by oil trains. Two oil trains recently derailed in the state on two consecutive days.
- A new Arizona law makes it tougher for homeowners to sue companies over construction defects. The legislation prohibits homeowners from recovering legal fees from builders and gives builders the right to make repairs before a lawsuit can be filed.
- Attorneys on behalf of Asian-American and other minority business owners filed a lawsuit against H-Capital Advance and Yalber over predatory lending practices.
- Environmental lawsuits do more than just bring the fight to the courts. Lawsuits are instrumental in reducing pollution levels.
- Fracking projects helped lower unemployment 0.5% during the Great Recession by creating 725,000 new jobs even as other industries were cutting employees.
- The chemical dispersant BP used to clean up the 2010 Gulf oil spill did not work as planned. A study found that the dispersant did not help microbes break down the oil faster than oil that wasn’t treated.
- Congress begins debating the future of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor visa program. The program will expire next month unless legislators act to reauthorize it.
- Colorado officials say they never agreed to the U.S. EPA cleanup that caused acid mine drainage to spill from the Gold King Mine and contaminate the Animas River.
- More Idahoans are buying homes as the housing market continues to heat up in 2015.
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