Ground Breakers
By Elizabeth Brewster
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 David Misky,
Assistant executive director, Redevelopment Authority for the city of Milwaukee, Wis.
With work on more than 100 brownfield redevelopment projects under his belt, David Misky says balancing the interests of everyone involved with a site is both his greatest challenge and his favorite part of the job. (See the Renewal Awards feature story that details the acclaimed and award-winning Menomonee Valley project.)
“I’m dealing with any number of different people on any given day—architects, lawyers, consultants, regulators, engineers, politicians,” he says. “We have created a brownfield team here in Milwaukee . . . that has been very aggressive and successful in obtaining funding from state and federal governments. But we have a need [for brownfield development] because we have a lot of underutilized and vacant properties. This is a city that was based on foundries, breweries and other manufacturing businesses.”
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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
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 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
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 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
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 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
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 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
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 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
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