- These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
- Minnesota officials are taking steps to avoid a water crisis like Flint’s by understanding lead contamination prevention techniques.
New Orleans, LA, August 30, 2005 — People sit on a roof waiting to be rescued after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans is being evacuated as a result of flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA
- The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that cities could not place limits on hydraulic fracturing operations because the ordinances cannot supersede state laws.
- Researchers are now able to show visually the amount of methane leaking in the areas surrounding San Diego County, California.
- Class action status has been approved in a lawsuit alleging that federal officials are responsible for some of the flooding that hit Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina.
- Seattle is one of several cities across the country that has approved a new $15 minimum wage. One chef in Seattle has no problem with the increased minimum wage.
- The Washington Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Seattle’s minimum wage increase. The challenge was initiated by franchisees who said that the new increase would be a burden on them, as they are still small businesses, even if they are part of a larger company.
- A lawsuit issued by a coalition of environmental groups requests that the EPA issue new rules regarding earthquakes allegedly caused by the fracking processes.
- Porter Ranch residents said that they were not told of the nearby gas field until after the gas leak that forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
- Parents in Newark, New Jersey, are suing over lead found in their children’s school’s drinking water. The federal lawsuit alleges that children were knowingly exposed to water containing elevated lead levels.
- A court in Arizona ordered a man to pay $1.3 million for an underground storage tank that leaked gasoline into Tucson’s groundwater in the 1980’s.
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