June 2008
State-of-the-Art Remediation for Brownfield Sites
Cover StoryBy Keith Henn, PG, Chris Pike, PE, William Wright, PE. Betty Li, PhD
“That land doesn’t mean anything to you?” In “Gone with the Wind,” Scarlett O’Hara learned that “land’s the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying
for, because it’s the only thing that lasts.” What if a vacant, blighted swath of land, regardless of ownership, could be
transformed into a dream home, a beautiful park, or a business? In this
article, we are going to walk you through state-of-the-art remediation
strategies …
Features
Others
Green Remediation Technology on the Rise
By Ken Kastman, P.E.
Others
Credit Crisis and Brownfields
By Peter Hollingworth
Others
Greening Brownfields: A Rooftop Perspective
By Kevin M. Laberge, P.E.
Others
New York City Gets New Brownfield Boss
By Daniel C.Walsh
Others
Sustainable Urban Redevelopment-A Climate-Change Solution
By Evans Paull
Others
Nanotechnology: New Waste Stream
By Jamie Nesbitt
Others
New ASTM Vapor Intrusion Rules
By Derek Ezovski
Special Report
Green Planning
By Jennifer Senick, Randy Solomon, Medea Villeré
Departments
Publisher Letter
The Times, They Are-a-Changing!
By Robert V. Colangelo
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 28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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