Buffalo-Niagara Region: Policies
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OHIO
Clean Ohio Fund. On November 4, 2008, Ohio voters will have the opportunity to expand the Clean
Ohio Fund. Highlights: plan is to sell $400 million in bonds ($200 million of which will be allocated
for brownfield development and $200 million for greenspace and farmland
development).
SB 221. In April, the Ohio state legislature approved the governor’s comprehensive energy bill, which includes provisions for renewable energy
standards for utilities, and sets state standards electricity prices and
electricity sources. It’s a whopper of a bill for this state and opens the door on the renewable side
for lots of creative energy projects involving brownfields.
NEW YORK
Amendment to NY Brownfield Cleanup Act. Signed June 25, 2008, the amendment
changes a number of elements of the... You need to register to view the rest of the article. Click here to subscribe.
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Buffalo-Niagara Region: People
William Murdock:
Director of the Urban Development Division of Ohio Dept. of Development. Overseeing the popular Clean Ohio Fund brownfield grant program and revolving loan
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Buffalo-Niagara Region
By Nicole A. Walker
Welcome to the new layout of the Regional Report section. As you turn the pages, you will notice that this section focuses on a geographic region, and
three particular areas: people, projects and policies. Our
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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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