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February 2009


Brownfield Renewal February 2009 Environmental Insurance: The Brownfield Connection
Cover StoryBy Elizabeth Brewster

Despite the financial uproar in the insurance world last fall, brownfield developers appear to have little to fear among the major environmental insurance carriers. “There are a lot of very strong, financially secure providers in environmental insurance,” said Ken Cornell, executive vice president of JCH Environmental Insurance Brokers in New York City. Even American International Group Inc. (AIG), which has received more than $150 billion in assistance from the federal government to head off bankruptcy, still maintains an A rating …

Features

Case Study
Sustainable Infrastructure Slated for Navy Yard at Noisette
By Keith F. West

Others
NE States Join Forces in Fight Against Carbon Emissions
By Steve Dwyer

Perspective
Don’t Leave Environmental Cost Recovery Claims On The Table
By David E. Cranston

Perspective
How to Select Vapor Mitigation Strategies for Contaminated Site Construction
By Glenn Tofani

Regional Report
Southwest
By Steve Dwyer

Southwest: People
By Steve Dwyer

Southwest: Skirvin Hilton Hotel

Southwest: Albuquerque Downtown @ 700-2nd

Southwest: Old Fort Lowell Restoration

Southwest: Plaza Pacoima Shopping Center

Southwest: Marina Gateway Hotel

Southwest: The Boulevards at South Bay

Southwest: Policy

State of Practice
So What are Green Jobs?
By Ken Kastman

State of Practice
NEBA: A Sure Route to Environmental Remediation
By Markus Niebanck

State of Practice
Small Landfills—Big Re-development Opportunities
By Jim Michelsen

Departments

Executive Briefs
President Obama Gears Up for ‘Green & Brown’ Vision
By Steve Dwyer

Industry Snapshot
US & Canadian Marketwatch (4Q 2008)

Legislative Briefs
The 111th Congress Begins Formidable Task
By Charlie Bartsch

Profiles
Practicing What They Preach
By Kara A. Allison

Publisher's Letter
The Only Thing to Fear is Us?
By Robert Colangelo

Transportation
Charleston Taxi is Lean & Green
By Steve Dwyer

Women
Women on the Move

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  Industry Profiles
Brett Davidson Brett Davidson
President and CEO, Wavefront Technology Solutions
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Becky Holmes Becky Holmes
Hazardous Waste Brownfields Coordinator, Montana DEQ
Montana

Stephen S. Koenigsberg Ph.D Stephen S. Koenigsberg Ph.D
Vice President, Adventus Americas, Inc.
Corona del Mar, Calif.





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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
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