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By Alan J. Bressler, Chris Smy
Few would argue that environmental insurance has evolved to become a widely used and effective tool for managing risk and uncertainty related to the transfer, remediation and redevelopment of Brownfield projects. However, like the broader worldwide property and casualty insurance market, of which it is a small segment, environmental insurance — and the insurers offering it — has seen some significant changes in the last two to three years.
The insurers that have been around since the beginning of the market …
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Features
Canadian Report
By Angus H. Ross
Canada’s capacity for brownfield redevelopment
is currently patchy and inconsistent. As a federation, there are three
orders of government dealing with the issue—federal, provincial and
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By Wendy Griswold
As we all do more with less, partners play a pivotal
role in the success of any project. Using community organizations and
universities can help leverage resources …
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By Julie Kilgore
In 1989, a new ASTM committee was established to define good commercial or customary practice for conducting “all appropriate inquiry” pursuant to the innocent landowner defense to CERCLA liability. Congress had given little guidance as to how to demonstrate there …
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By Sven-Erik Kaiser
Any opinions expressed in this article are the views
of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
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After reading Sven-Erik Kaiser’s article on how
the EPA’s brownfield program works, we asked a number of people in
the industry for their thoughts on the agency’s role …
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Regional Report
By Barry Hersh
Andres Duany, the noted architect and founder of new
urbanism, has been described as the most charismatic Cuban since Ricky
Ricardo. He used all his charm, and …
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By Stephen Merrill Smith
Land use controls (LUCs) are legal restrictions that
protect the public from exposure to residual contamination at brownfields.
LUCs are designed to limit land use that …
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New Jersey State Photo
N.J. Gov. James McGreevey and N.J. DEP Comm. Bradley …
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Pennsylvania’s DEP’s Land Recycling Program is sharing questions and responses on its vapor intrusion guideline to minimize inconsistent implementation of the state’s guidance and to help people to understand it. The agency will post questions and answers at www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/landrecy/FAQ/NewQR.htm.
Interested parties …
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Site Name: Camden Crossing Location: at the intersection of Scott and McHenry streets in the Washington Village neighborhood of downtown Baltimore City
Owner: Camden Association c/o METROVENTURES/USA, Inc.
Lot size (acreage or dimensions): 9 acres
Number of buildings: 150 townhouses
Square footage of each …
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By Edward Young
When Triumvirate Environmental’s CEO, John
McQuillan saw the Chemical Waste Disposal waste storage site in the heart
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Marking the first cleanup project under New
York’s new Brownfield Cleanup Program the commission of the
state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Erin M.
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N.J. Named to Economic Development Honor Roll
The Washington D.C.-based Corporation for Enterprise
Development, an independent strategy group listed New Jersey and just seven
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Departments
Development
By Kelly Novak
As federal, state and local budgets continue to be limited, it’s not uncommon to find local development agencies and public organizations planning and managing brownfields projects with the labor force of just one or a few full-time brownfield personnel, especially …
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Keeping Technologies
By Ken Kastman
Most businesses or public institutions don’t have “Brownfields Departments”. Brownfield related activities are typically handled by a few individuals working within more established work structures (e.g., Community Development Department, Remediation Group). Institutional knowledge is kept within a few people. What …
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Institutional Controls
Earth Pledge, a New York City-based nonprofit
organization that promotes “techniques and technologies that
restore the balance between …
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Reporting
Environmental issues have always been a challenge for
companies. Whether the exposures come from general business operations or
from legacy liabilities, there are concerns for the manner in …
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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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Trey Hess Jackson, Miss.
Brownfields Program Coordinator for the Mississippi Dept. of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
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Colleen Kokas New Jersey
Brownfields Manager, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
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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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