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

  • The county boundary between North Yorkshire and Lancashire now runs directly through the middle of the village of Tosside. Copyright Benjamin Hopkins and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

    St. Lucie County in Florida saw its taxable property values increase more than seven percent from the previous year. Port St. Lucie’s values were 11 percent higher, making up $8.7 billion of the county’s $18.8 billion in taxable property values.

  • Felilx Capital raised $150 million to invest in tech startups, especially those with a focus on more creative projects.
  • California revealed its plan to clean lead contamination from properties around a closed battery recycling plant.
  • States are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s decision not to continue working to ban chlorpyrifos, which has been shown to be dangerous to children.
  • New hydraulic fracturing ventures are coming to the United Kingdom. Third Energy submitted plans to begin operations in North Yorkshire.
  • As much as 40,000 gallons of oil was spilled following a train derailment in Illinois.
  • Researchers from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) are working to find a way to reuse coal ash as a building material.
  • A Pennsylvania county could see an jump in jobs once a new trail system is completed.
  • Property values in New Zealand are on the rise, but at the slowest pace in two years. Stricter lending is one factor limiting home sales.