A World View of Brownfields
By Richard G. Opper
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INTERNATIONAL REPORT
I recently had the opportunity to meet up with Paul Nathanail, a friend I seldom
see. He was in San Diego, my hometown, with a group of students who are
following a unique part-time vocational master’s program in contaminated land management at the University of Nottingham in
Great Britain. They joined me for a tour around the Petco Park baseball project
in downtown San Diego, after which we stopped for a Bushmills at the Marriott
Gaslamp Quarter’s Altitude Skybar and a cool beer at the Kansas City Barbeque.
It was on this excursion that Paul talked about his international involvement
with brownfields.
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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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