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By Mark Underhill, R.G., R.B.P.
In the steep mountains of the Oregon Coast Range between the fertile Willamette
Valley and the sandy beaches of the Pacific Ocean, lies the former town of
Nashville, Ore.
It was near here that Carol Adams and her late husband, Bill Brown, founded the
Coastal Range Food Bank, a charitable organization that serves the needs of
communities struck hard by the struggling and economically depressed logging
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Features
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By Deborah English, Richard Enfield
What could be more pleasant than a riverside park with a marina, camping and
multi-use trails within minutes of the revitalized downtown of a major
metropolitan area? Kansas City, Mo., is developing such a park along …
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Regional Report
By Jamie Nesbitt
The South Bronx has witnessed the birth of hip hop, Jennifer Lopez and Al
Pacino. Now it has a front-row seat to an environmental renaissance, as the
community turns injustice into economic empowerment. With the help …
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Indianapolis’s largest brownfield site will experience a second life when a city-based manufacturing firm builds its new 150,000 square-foot building on
the property. Major Tool and Machine recently purchased the former home of Ertel Manufacturing Corp., …
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Innovative Remediation and Planning Strategy Facilitates Transformation of an
Abandoned Railyard into a World-Class, Mixed-Use Community
San Francisco’s Mission Bay redevelopment is one of the West Coast’s highest-profile brownfield projects, transforming former railyards into …
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By Matt Whelan
Photo: Catellus Development Group
In Austin, Texas, the former municipal airport is fast being transformed into
the new Mueller community, a mixed-use urban village located just three miles
from the center of town. The project has all …
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By Jamie Nesbitt
Quebec recently unveiled an enhanced program for subsidizing brownfield
redevelopment within the province. The new program, called ClimatSol, replaces
ReviSol, a similar plan that ended in 2006.
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Special Report
By David E. Ellis, Ph.D.
The DuPont Corporate Remediation Group (CRG) now distinguishes between and
selects remedial actions based on sustainability by performing sustainable
remediation assessments at brownfield sites. The assessments involve
quantifying the elements of various remedial options and calculating …
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View from the Field
By Michael P. Turner
Environmental justice, public outcry, NIMBYs, and costly, protracted litigation,
are just some of the doomsday phrases that come to mind when developers,
corporations and elected officials consider the recent New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP) …
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Departments
Legislative Briefs
By Deborah Goldblum
Everyone wants to be green these days. Turn on the TV and you see commercials
about oil companies building windmills. Thanks to the efforts of the U.S. Green
Building Council’s LEED certification program, the term “green …
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Legislative Briefs
By Denise M. Brinley
It is a story that is played out in cities and towns across Pennsylvania: the
municipality’s major employer succumbs to economic pressures, leaving hundreds without jobs.
Over time, the site sits idle, while the municipality loses …
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Legislative Briefs
By Sven Rundman
The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), created
under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, is to assure the safety
and health of America’s working men and women by setting and …
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Policy
By Charlie Bartsch
As the 110th Congress reached its midpoint nearing the 2007 winter holiday
recess, brownfields were gaining more attention on Capitol Hill. The EPA and
the Bush Administration continue to support the brownfields program (see table), touting
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Profiles
By John Spizzirri
All Photographs by Sean Galbraith, www.SMLG.ca
They call it urban exploration. “They” are photographers with an eye, a curiosity and an appreciation for abandoned
sites, documenting what Sean Galbraith calls the life cycle of inanimate
objects.
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Women
By Jamie Nesbitt
Problem solving is a craft that requires equal parts logic, creativity and
finesse. Roosevelt employed this formula to rescue the country from the Great
Depression. Churchill applied it to broker international peace. MacGyver used
it—in addition …
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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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Job Board Listings
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Environmental Project Manager (Toledo, Ohio)
SME, consultants in the Geosciences, Materials and the Environment, seeks an experienced Environmental Professional for its growing Toledo office. For 47 years, SME has provided cost-effective, pract…
Certified Residential Appraiser (Columbus, Ohio)
CJob Description:- The client, is seeking HUD approved, Certified Appraisers in the Ohio area. - Knowledge of ACI software is a plus.- $20 per month cell phone credit - Guaranteed bi-weekly pay checks…
Revit Drafter (Boston, Massachusetts)
Aerotek is currently seeking a Revit Technician.This is a contract through the end of February with strong possibility to extend/go perm. Qualifications:-5 years architectural office experience-3 year…
Structural Engineer (Saginaw, Michigan)
We are working with an Architecture Firm in Saginaw, MI, and they are looking for a structural engineer. A good candidate for the position is a licensed Engineer or an Engineer in Training with 3 year…
SAP SRM Consultant (Charlotte, North Carolina)
The position is open due to the lack of SAP SRM business process domain knowledge within their existing team and this person will fill be the subject matter expert for their SRM systems. A big part of…
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This Weeks Poll
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  Will the EPA Workforce Development and other similar environmental jobs programs signal the start of a revitalized U.S. job market?
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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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Andrew Brack California
Partner Engineering, Principal, National Site Mitigation Practice
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Whitepapers
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by Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, and Jeff Jones
The new report by New Partners for Community Revitalization (NPCR) shows how New York State is revitalizing neighborhoods plagued by multiple brownfield sites, while stimulating economic growth and creating local jobs.
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By Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, Jeff Jones
Brownfields redevelopment policy in New York is in transition as the area-wide approach emerges as an innovative tool for urban revitalization. |
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by Laura Truettner
In April, 2011, New York State awarded $6.5 million in new grants under its landmark Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA) program, bringing the total state investment in BOA to $34 million. |
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Press Releases
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| Brownfields Forum, BOA EXPO,
Award to Suffolk County Executive-Elect Steven Bellone |
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Industry Events
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Industry Experts
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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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