These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
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BNSF’s Northern Transcon is the main rail conduit for 600,000+ bbl/d of oil from western North Dakota’s Bakken oil field. By Roy Luck (Pipeline on rails, Trempealeau WI) CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The first trial between Porter Ranch, Calif. residents and Southern California Gas Company has been delayed. A pretrial hearing has been rescheduled for later in September.
- A Seattle developer was fined $1.2 million for using unlicensed advisors to help direct EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program applicants toward his project.
- The governors of both Oregon and Washington are being encouraged to push Congress to ban oil-by-train. The movement grew after a derailment earlier this month caused evacuations and damaged water and sewer systems.
- Washington D.C. is the latest city to approve a $15 an hour minimum wage. Baltimore is also considering a similar move.
- Landowners in Iowa are joining together to fight against the use of eminent domain to build the proposed Bakken Pipeline.
- A resident in Sumner County, Tenn. sued the county after the landfill allegedly contaminated nearby water sources.
- Monsanto has asked a judge to dismiss multiple lawsuits against the company alleging it contaminated the San Francisco Bay with PCBs.
- Michigan filed a lawsuit against a French company the state says was involved in the water contamination that has affected the city of Flint.
- New Mexico is suing Colorado over the Gold King Mine spill that occurred last year as well as other contaminated drainage from other mines near the Animas River.
- An apartment building under construction in New York will be the largest of its kind in the United States. Developers are looking to
to the project.
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