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Diesel 5029 Norfolk Southern US Rail freight train. By Peter Alder (Own work) [GFDL () or CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
- Hopeful EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program applicants are seeing their applications delayed while potential EB-5 projects are investigated over allegations of fraud.
- Old gas and oil wells may be buried underground, and they can be dangerous to builders, who may not know they are there until it’s too late.
- In Texas, property taxes are outstripping household incomes. While median household income increased 26 percent from 2005 to 2014, county and city property taxes jumped 70 and 60 percent, respectively.
- Home prices in Hong Kong are dropping, but the government will not remove protections meant to keep prices down until they stay down for a longer period of time.
- Now that the Obama administration approved offshore hydraulic fracturing, oil companies are looking at locations off the coast of California.
- The chemical PFOA, used to make Teflon, has been found on more than 250 properties in New Hampshire. Environmental activist Erin Brockovich said that the contamination is even more widespread.
- Officials in Virginia fined the Norfolk Southern Corp. $25,000 for a 2015 derailment that spilled more than 17,000 gallons of lubricating oil.
- Cleveland could soon be joining Seattle in raising the local minimum wage to $15 an hour. However, unlike Seattle, Cleveland’s minimum wage would increase in January. Seattle is gradually increasing to $15 an hour.
- A fourth lawsuit against DuPont is now being heard in court. The company is accused of dumping Perfluorooctanoic acid, also known as C8, into the Ohio River.
- Lawmakers in North Carolina approved a bill that brings back a state commission that will manage the cleanup of coal ash pits throughout the state.
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