These are some of the stories we’ve been following this week.
- The Dubai Sovereign Wealth Fund reported profits fell 21 percent, due in part to a decline in its transportation services segment.
- The Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, which leaked methane and forced thousands of residents from their homes, received the go-ahead to reopen. Residents in Porter Ranch, California, evacuated the area following the discovery of a leak in October 2015.
- Residents of Grayling, Michigan, are concerned their property values will be affected following the announcement that chemicals from a nearby airfield had leaked into the drinking water supply.
- High-end properties in London could fall in value as much as 10 percent in the wake of the Brexit decision.
- A Scranton, Pennsylvania neighborhood group is suing over a proposed line that will transport pretreated leachate through the sewer to a nearby landfill. The group says the city already had a permit with the landfill to use another designated line for the leachate.
- In San Diego, the city has a plan to turn sewage water into drinking water, and the federal government wants to help make it happen by investing nearly $500 million in the project.
- A decision has been postponed on where Flint, Michigan, will receive its water in the future. The city council will consider an agreement next month.
- The South Dakota Supreme Court could soon be hearing a case that could determine the future of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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