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By Elizabeth Brewster
Promoting brownfield interests in Washington is a little like always being the new kid at school, say insiders: You have to figure out where you fit into the crowd and make a place for yourself there.
The brownfield redevelopment agenda has natural affinities with many other issues but has always struggled to develop an identity of its own, says Charlie Bartsch, a senior fellow at ICF International in Washington, D.C., with more than 25 years of experience in brownfield reuse policy …
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WebExclusives
Brett Davidson, President and CEO, Wavefront Technology Solutions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
You could say that Wavefront Technology Solutions' Brett Davidson and his team like to go with the flow. The company's Primawave technology is becoming a compelling solution in …
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By Todd Adams
Many of us who spent years in the environmental insurance space know one thing: There have been significant level of change in the Brownfield landscape during the past decade regarding the redevelopment of Canadian sites.
Canadian brownfield redevelopment continues to …
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Features
Breaking Ground
By Daniel Burns
Once a rail yard for Union Pacific Railroad, Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas is one of the most ambitious brownfield redevelopment programs in the country. The city of Las Vegas aims to convert 61 acres of a former …
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Focus: Outsourcing
By Elizabeth Brewster
Four years ago, the problem of New Jersey’s contaminated sites backlog came to a head with the “Kiddie Kollege” disaster: A day care facility was found to have been built on unremediated property that had once housed a thermometer …
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Perspective
By Evans Paull
Are third-party and toxic tort protections the next wave of brownfields reforms? Gerald Pouncey, an attorney who has been involved in over 250 brownfield projects nationally, believes that state and federal reforms are going to have to go that direction …
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Perspective
By Dan Welby
Cities and towns across the United States have considerable incentive to remediate and reuse their brownfields. Besides protecting the environment, communities that succeed at putting contaminated sites back into productive use reduce blight, alleviate urban sprawl, attract new businesses and …
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Regional Report
By Steve Dwyer
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By Steve Dwyer
Jason Seyler, Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality, Helena, Mont.
As the Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Seyler works with non-profits, communities, and developers to facilitate the assessment and cleanup of releases of hazardous substances at Brownfield sites in …
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LOCATION: Sheridan, Wyo.
LAND USE: A paved parking and pedestrian area used by the community to access the city of Sheridan’s walking path/trail system along Little Goose Creek near Alger Avenue.
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.59 acres.
TOTAL PROJECT VALUE: …
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LOCATION: Ogden, Utah.
CURRENT USE: An office building complex leased to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
BACKGROUND: Block 37/A in Ogden was the site of the former Ogden Iron Works, auto repair shops, …
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LOCATION: Lewistown, Mont.
BACKGROUND: Located along the west bank of Big Spring Creek one-mile south of Lewistown on Route 238, the Facility is a former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul/Burlington Northern railroad switching yard and roundhouse …
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MONTANA
The Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Bureau is the Bureau that plans, implements, and oversees remedial actions at facilities with hazardous or deleterious substance releases. These typically occur at commercial and industrial facilities, transportation facilities, municipal landfills, and similar facilities …
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View from the Field
By Michael Goldstein
In June 2007, Leonard Pitts, a legendary columnist for The Miami Herald, launched a year-long look at programs that are elevating the dire circumstances facing many African American children in America today. He called his series simply, "What Works." In …
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View from the Field
By Ken Kastman
Industry participants need to rethink their overall and long-term approach to energy technology. So theorizes Patrick Moore of the Clean and Safe Energy coalition, who sees technology and brownfield developments merging closer together. He is challenging industry stakeholders to …
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Departments
From the Editor
By Steve Dwyer
Everyone needs a good advocate—someone to step up to the plate and represent their best interests. Interests that plead or defend the cause of another.
In Washington, D.C. brownfield advocates might come in the form of professional lobbyists …
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Green Professionals
By Steve Dwyer
Chris Bley and an associate had one of those “ah ha” moments back in 2000 when they parlayed their passion for their hobby, rock climbing, into a lucrative career: Wind turbine maintenance.
Bley and Eric Stanfield, who are …
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In Transit
By Steve Dwyer
The state of Illinois in March took a historic step toward creating a bullet train network when the Illinois Senate passed a bill creating the Illinois and Midwest High Speed Rail Commission. The 12-member commission is expected to issue …
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Legislative Briefs
By Charlie Bartsch
Congress has returned from its spring recess, after its bitter and exhausting deliberations over health care—a process which (to quote a prominent state and local lobbyist) “sucked all the oxygen right out of the Capitol.”
The spring “time …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Kristina Smitten Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Principal of Smitten Group, serving private and public clients in the areas of brownfield redevelopment
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Aaron Scheff Idaho
Brownfield Response Program Manager, Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality
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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 Experts
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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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