(Land)Banking on Execution, Vision
By Steve Dwyer
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 In Cleveland, Ohio, a 22-acre industrial property—the former home to a steel plant—was not a site for the faint of heart. And, it was definitely not a sight for sore eyes.
It was far from it. Midland Steel, which for decades had owned and operated the plant, had vacated the property in 2004 after filing for bankruptcy. What Midland Steel left in its wake were a host of environmental issues accumulated over the years: Thousands of tons of soil and concrete contaminated with hazardous materials or impacted by petroleum; numerous open pits filled with millions of gallons of PCB contaminated waters and oils; and an abandoned building with asbestos containing bio-hazardous materials.
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  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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