These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
- The House approved a bill to weaken the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent coal ash disposal rules, which we wrote about earlier this year. However, President Obama is threatening a veto.
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- Adding the right pool to a home can significantly increase the home’s value. This story discusses how to evaluate swimming pools as a potential amenity in the UK, but the same factors generally apply in other housing markets.
- Residents near the CSX oil train derailment in Maryville, Tennessee earlier this month have filed a $5 million class action lawsuit for property damages, mental suffering, and expenses caused by the crash and resulting fire.
- Defective window glazing on a 21-story mixed-use building in Portland, Oregon has led to a $6 million lawsuit for remediation costs and lost rent.
- Duke Energy is holding meetings for a new project that would seize property along a 45-mile corridor to construct a 230 kV transmission line from a new natural gas-fired power plant in Asheville, North Carolina to a new substation in Campobello, South Carolina.
- New York State’s Brownfield Cleanup Program has been reauthorized until March 31, 2026, and despite reforms, it still offers generous tax credits and environmental liability benefits for redevelopment of brownfields.
- Five years ago, an Enbridge pipeline spilled 800,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River. Here’s a timeline of events after the oil spill, including the billion-dollar cleanup effort.
- A business group in Des Moines, Iowa is trying to negotiate a settlement to a water quality lawsuit between the Des Moines Water Works utility and three rural counties over nitrate contamination in drinking water sources with the assistance of area farmers, businesses, and environmental and legislative leaders.
- A new study shows that changing economic conditions, not fracking, were the primary cause of decreasing U.S. carbon emissions from 2007 to 2013.
- How does crime affect property values? Residents of a small town in New York wonder how recent shootings might affect neighborhood home values.
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