These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.

Tulpehocken Creek Old Bridge remains located on theDelaware River Basin. By Jason Bolonski from Linfield, PA, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will spend $700,000 to clean up properties in Vermont that were possibly exposed to contamination.
  • A settlement was reached in a lawsuit filed over a 2013 oil spill in an Arkansas neighborhood. The terms of the settlement are confidential.
  • Although Congress is focused right now on a new healthcare bill, changes to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program are still very much a possibility.
  • Environmentalists told Pennsylvania residents that hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas operations could be detrimental to the area.
  • A candidate for New Jersey governor wants to ban fracking from the Delaware River Basin.
  • Insurance companies stated that Duke Energy, the North Carolina utility at the center of a coal ash cleanup dispute, is responsible for the costs, not the insurers.
  • The state of Washington continues to put together plans to set in motion in the event of an oil train derailment and spill.
  • The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) want the city of Belle to hold off a rail-t0-trails project until the agency can look into other options.
  • Lycoming County in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against a contractor for what the county says is a defective storage tank at a local landfill.