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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
- Following another oil train derailment, regulators are looking into increased safety measures for trains transporting oil, especially near populated areas.
- An energy plant in Oregon is at the center of a property tax fight that has lasted for years.
- Washington D.C. joins other cities in approving a $15 an hour minimum wage.
- Activist Erin Brockovich will be working with a New York law firm to investigate water contamination issues at military bases.
- The city of Philadelphia has been sued amidst allegations that tests for contaminants in the city’s water supply were “rigged.”
- The overall value of property in the Florida Keys has increased by $1.49 billion since last year, and is now $22.81 billion.
- New Hampshire residents are considering a lawsuit after perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contaminants were found in the water supply of cities in the southern area of the state.
- 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.
- The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is likely to be extended into next year, when a new Congress could consider reform once again.
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