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Event: A hazardous waste site in Love Canal, N.Y.
focused public attention on the need to strengthen environmental laws that
protect human health as grassroots community activists protested …
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Event: Citizen concern over the extent of uncontrolled and abandoned hazardous waste sites led Congress to establish the Superfund Program (CERCLA) in 1980 to locate, investigate, and clean up the nation’s worst sites.
Action: Superfund forcibly brings environmental liability to the …
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Event: New Jersey passed the Environmental Cleanup
Responsibility Act (ECRA) in 1983, which was the first state environmental
disclosure and cleanup law. The Industrial Sites Recovery Act (ISRA) …
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Event: Minnesota adopts first Voluntary Investigation
and Cleanup program (VIC).
Action: Property owners can voluntarily enter their
site into the state VIC program …
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The brownfield market was shaped by political,
economic and regulatory forces and the following economic data and CERCLA
timeline are provided to give readers an overview of the …
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Event: Congress forms the Resolution Trust Corporation
(RTC) in 1989 to replace the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
(FSLIC) to respond to the insolvencies of about 750 …
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Event: A court decision called Fleet Factors
establishes legal precedent for lenders—financiers can be drawn into
the chain of title and be made liable for environmental cleanup as …
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Event: The Northeast Midwest Institute publishes first report on brownfields, New Life for Old Buildings and hosts the first conference in Chicago for local government representatives and nonprofits on contaminated site reuse in 1992.
Action: The report increases public awareness about …
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Event: The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
E-50 Committee creates and makes publicly available the Phase I Site
Assessment Standard—E-1527-00.
Action: The …
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Event: The U.S. EPA provides a $200,000 grant to
Cuyahoga County. The Brownfields Initiative is launched to redevelop
abandoned, idle, or underused industrial and commercial sites where
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Overcoming Inertia
1993 is a natural spot to end Part I of our history of brownfields. The stage was set as political, social and economic forces aligned to bring about environmental change. Prior to 1993 the market was mainly reacting …
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By Lisa Szymecko, Thomas Voice
The ideal brownfield project or program is one in
which both the community’s and the developer’s objectives are
met—the win/win scenario. This is most easily accomplished when there …
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By Art Vendelay
As the elections of 2002 demonstrated, nothing in state government—as in life—is certain. The largest number of new governors in nearly 50 years—24—have taken office in 2003. This change in government is often referred to as the “transition” process. …
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Departments
Jaundiced View
By Peter M. Gillon
Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
© Billy …
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EPA Clarifies Phase I Standards
The EPA will clarify parts of recent amendments to CERCLA to answer questions about innocent landowner provisions and the interim Phase I standard set by Congress in the new brownfield law. The EPA says that …
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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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J.R. Capasso City of Trenton, N.J.
CPG, Brownfields Coordinator
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Deb Peters Indianapolis, Ind.
President, Quality Environmental Professionals
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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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Industry Experts
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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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