Fracking Site in Warren Center, PA. By Ostroff Law (Fracking Lawyer). CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
- The Navajo Nation sued the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over last year’s Gold King Mine spill that sent millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River.
- Norway’s wealth fund downgraded the value of its United Kingdom property portfolio because of the UK’s recent vote to leave the European Union. The portfolio’s valued dropped five percent.
- A resort in Vermont has hired an attorney to lobby Congress to make changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. One change the attorney wants to see is that investors who were defrauded still receive their visas.
- A $750 million class-action lawsuit against Fort Detrick in Maryland was dismissed. The plaintiffs alleged the Army was reckless in the way it handled chemicals that made residents sick.
- Contaminated water on the North island of New Zealand caused 2,000 people to become sick.
- Larger oil companies are looking for ways to make hydraulic fracturing profitable in the wake of low oil prices.
- In North Dakota, hundreds of protesters are trying to stop a $3.7 billion pipeline from being built. The protesters said they are worried about the pipeline contaminating the drinking water along with nearby sites sacred to the Native American population.
- The city council in Spokane, Washington voted to withdraw an ordinance that would have fined railroad companies for every rail car carrying crude oil or coal that went through the city.
- Business owners in Fort Wayne, Indiana are going to trial over the city’s plans to use eminent domain to tear down two buildings to make room for riverfront projects.
- For companies developing solar power in India, the main concern right now is raising the needed capital to proceed with their plans.
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