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Repair and Cleaning
Locomotive and railcar repair and cleaning is the dirtiest part of railroading
and is the area under RCRA regulation. Cleaning cars results in contaminated
wastewater that is treated on site and RCRA materials are removed and
treated.The materials include a range of solvents, waste oil, and oil sludge.
Repair facilities produce the same wastes as well as lead and acids from
battery maintenance. Painting operations at the facilities produce volatile
organic compounds, degreasing and …
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Features
Benchmarking Success
By Lynn H. Heglund
If you’re going to build a business you need two things—understanding of what works and what doesn’t and a focus on customer service. Minnesota has approached its brownfield programs with those points in mind. The state has kept meticulous …
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Canadian Corner
By Luciano Piccioni
Brownfield News readers may have a sense that Canada
is just stepping out of the starting blocks on redevelopment, but there are
number of projects and methods already …
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First Person
By Robert M. Cox, Jr.
I must respond to the articles in the May/June issue
of Brownfield News with a certain amount of bemusement.
In the article by Charlie Bartsch: “How About …
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First Person
By Paul D. Cohen
When I mention my specialization in brokering
brownfield sites to other real estate professionals, they often respond
with a look of disbelief. Why would I waste my time …
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International Focus
By Marcela Tomaskova
The Karolina site, a former industrial area, lies in the center city of Ostrava,
Czech Republic, just feet away from the city’s historic square. Its importance lies in the rarity of finding 150 acres of
prime, …
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Secret City Site Shifts Sectors
Site Name: East Tennessee Technology Park’s (ETTP) Heritage Center
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Owner: Current, U. S. Department of Energy …
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Departments
Industry watch
Hangover for Brownfields Recovery
According to a report in the Boston Globe, Brownfields
Recovery Corp. “is no longer looking for business.” In an
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Industry watch
Cool Million
California State Treasurer Philip Angelides presented a check for $1 million to San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy as part of
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Industry watch
Signings
The EPA and the Economic Development
Administration (EDA) have renewed a 1995
memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing a …
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Industry watch
Gregory E. Schilz has
joined Breitstone & Co. as a partner in a newly formed West Coast affiliate that
specializes in environmental liability. Prior to joining Breitstone, Schilz …
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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 multiplied by 100. The BSI tracks the stock …
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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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Paul Curran Lackawanna, N.Y.
Senior Executive Vice President, Axio Power & Apex Wind Energy
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Gil Wistar Portland
Brownfields Coordinator, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
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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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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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