Southeast: Policies
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ALABAMA
The Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management (ADEM) believes strongly in the Brownfields Program and is committed to becoming a national leader in brownfields information and development.
The first step towards this goal has been the development of the ADEM GIS Site Inspector, an interactive, multi-faceted web-based technology that allows developers to locate brownfields in Alabama and easily access a wide range of data about the site including former business, potential contaminants, estimated costs, liability waivers and more.
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Southeast: People
By Steve Dwyer
Jason S. Lichtstein,
president of the Florida Brownfields Association.
Lichtstein is an environmental attorney and shareholder with the Akerman Senterfitt law firm in Tallahassee. He has significant experience in the cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse of Brownfields and other contaminated properties
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Southeast: Atlanta Beltline
PROPERTY SIZE: 22-mile transit loop circling Atlanta's urban core. Covers 6,500 acres or 8% of the city's land area.
PROJECT TEAM: Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.; Beltline Partnership; Atlanta Development Authority; City of Atlanta; PATH Foundation; Trust for Public Land; MARTA; EPA;
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Southeast: Revitalized Steel Plant
LOCATION: Charleston, S.C.
SIZE : 141 acres
BACKGROUND: Cherokee Investment Partners' project in North Charleston, S.C., known as Macalloy, is an EPA Superfund Site. The former steel plant fronts Shipyard Creek and is situated in an industrial and commercial
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Southeast: Former White's Packing Facility
LOCATION: Ocala, Fla.
SIZE: 7 acres
BACKGROUND: A derelict meat packing facility sat vacant for 10 years before the owner, who also ran a construction business, used the seven acre site for storage of his heavy equipment
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Count On It
  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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