These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
Fly ash and detritus from the Kingston Fossil Plant spill near Kingston, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. By Brian Stansberry (Own work) CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- An oil spill off the coast of Turkey is nearly cleaned up, and a commission was set up to investigate why a tanker that was docked began leaking fuel.
- It’s been nine years, and now the ecosystem affected by the coal ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee has finally recovered.
- Montgomery County, Maryland lawmakers voted to raise the minimum wage for most businesses to $15. However, the law must still be approved by the county executive.
- In Indiana, legislators are debating a bill that would require railroads to pass higher standards in order to attempt to acquire land through eminent domain.
- A new lawsuit in Montana aims to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.
- Another tribe of Native Americans have refused to allow an oil pipeline to run through its land. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians denied the easement of the pipeline, which was built about 60 years ago, but the easement expired in 2013.
- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced plans to limit methane pollution from shale gas wells.
- Methane emissions around the Bay Area in California were found to be twice as high as originally believed, according to a new study.
- Some economists are predicting that the property bubble in the United Kingdom could burst this year, and the market is showing signs of slowing down.
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