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Spinning
Turning fibers into thread or yarn has relatively low environmental impacts—most wastes are the fibers themselves, or cuttings. Like most parts of the textile industry, the spinning process is made up of many other steps and these operations may use hazardous chemicals.
Buhler Yarns Photo Louis Pannel
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Features
Accelerating Redevelopment
By Steve Heikkila
As more and more large brownfield redevelopment
projects are completed, the fear of costly and time-consuming environmental
cleanup on small parcels within those brownfield areas can discourage
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Canadian Corner
By Luciano Piccioni
Canadian brownfield policy is still evolving and the market for redeveloping brownfield properties is currently being driven by a handful of companies and private sector entrepreneurs who are willing to take the risk and share the reward of tackling these …
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Electrons at work
By Mike Sieczkowski, Bryan Vigue
One method of groundwater cleanup involves
manipulating the balance of electron acceptors (oxygen) and electron donors
(hydrogen) in groundwater. This method recruits or enhances naturally
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Jaundiced View
By Peter M. Gillon
Welcome to Washington—the most dangerous city in
the United States. Over the past year we have experienced the terror of
September 11, with an airplane crashing into the …
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Municipal Case Study
By Laura Filbert Zacher &, Kevin McGrew
Background: St. Louis
is not unlike any other former industrial city of the country—though
it is older than some since it is set on the Mississippi River and …
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By Robert M. Cox, Jr
Thoughts on Environmental Accounting
Environmental accounting in the early1990s was a footnote on the year-end report. Interpretation and implementation of environmental legislation over the past decade has changed the landscape of financial reporting. The former environmental footnote …
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$5 Million Accelerates Cleanup
The Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), and state of Texas officials, signed a letter of
intent to accelerate …
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Industry watch
Mortgage Bankers Insurance Policy
The Mortgage Bankers Association announced the
formation of a task force on the use of environmental insurance for
commercial real estate …
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Industry watch
Habitat for Brownfields
Inspired by the redevelopment model created by the
pilot partners in the Twin Cities, EPA headquarters has forged a
partnership with Habitat for Humanity International. EPA Administrator Christie …
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Industry watch
Architect Kerry Jones has joined NTH Consultants. The
25-year veteran will specialize in reusing and decommissioning facilities
in the firm’s Exton, Pa office....Ill.- and Ind.-based
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Industry watch
Three Legged Stool
Columbia Technologies has developed an approach to
help implement the EPA triad approach to cleanup. The company’s
software …
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News from Around the Country
Brownfield News Analysis: With
48 states having established some level of voluntary cleanup program,
states continue to lead the brownfield issue. This column will track the
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The Brownfield Supply Index is an average of the
daily closing stock prices of a wide range of publicly-traded companies
that own a large number of industrial properties …
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Graham Stevens Hartford, CT
Brownfields Coordinator for the Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection
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Fred D. Reynolds Oak Brook, Ill.
Senior Vice President, Development, CenterPoint Properties
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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