Work still needs to be done, but Brownfield reauthorization makes inroads in the U.S. House. …
Sorensen nominated to serve on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee. …
Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk, designed in partnership between the city of Portage, Ind., and the National Park Service (NPS), is making quite a name for itself in northwest Indiana. …
The Steel Winds wind farm in Lackawanna N.Y., an ambitious offshore wind energy complex in Lake Erie, has both its advocates and skeptics. What camp will win out? …
State to add up to 25 more Superfund sites in next five years as competition for federal funds increases
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Organization's president states that new "expertise will help form foundation of GEI’s diverse service offerings and supports commitment to high quality in our work and client services.”
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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 increase in volume. As an insurance provider assessing these sites for the purpose of providing an insurance package, we have seen that in most cases partnering with the Canadian stakeholders …
Use of Recovery Zone Facility Bonds, authorized by ARRA would build Wayne State University Medical School offices. …
Exec will work to facilitate major regional and national new business efforts. …
Fast action needed for near-term mitigation.
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The Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia has ambitious goals for the training of future green professionals. …
Utilizing state grant, New Jersey university helps fund solar plant project--largest to date at a U.S. university. …
Green-building trends are picking up momentum, and rightly so. The Obama
administration has jumped on the green-build/energy efficiency bandwagon with
both feet flying, greasing the skids through funding, and seeing the powerful
benefits and payback these developments can yield.
Everything comes with a perception, real or imagined. Once, the perception of green-building initiatives was “costly,” “highly-ambitious,” even “pie-in-the-sky.” …
A site cleanup protects human health and the environment, provides reuse options for the land, creates jobs and reduces sprawl. However, a raised awareness to climate change is forcing individuals to step back and look at the potential unintended consequences from site cleanups. Cleanup activities use energy, water and material resources to achieve their objectives.
The process of cleanup therefore creates an environmental …
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Over the past several years renewable energy has become one of the fastest growing segments throughout the United States. Unprecedented attention has shifted to renewable energy options, such as wind, solar,
bio-fuels, biomass and geothermal due to the federal government’s …
Move over corn, soy and sugarcane, it appears there’s a new bio-fuels “sheriff” in town that some predict will reshape if not revolutionize the clean, green fuel production and distribution marketplace.
Time was when the integration of a corn derivative like ethanol (E-85) blended into the fuel supply—used by conscientious consumers to the military to municipal fleets—was regarded as the holy grail of bio-fuels. …
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Green energy is serious business in China.
“They see cleaning up the environment as directly related to future economic
growth,” says Peter Gourlay, president and founder of the Maryland-Asia Environmental
Partnership (MD-AEP), based in Timonium, Md. “It’s …
Survey the European brownfield landscape, and you’ll know you’re not in Kansas anymore.
Even a ballpark estimate of European brownfield numbers remains an elusive goal, say experts, because every country uses different terminology for its contaminated land.
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Voila! The nation’s first municipal brownfield cleanup plan.
While many cities have exciting brownfields efforts, New York is the first to
have its own municipally-run brownfield remediation program. On August 9, 2010
a Memorandum of Agreement was announced with the New York State Dept. of
Environmental Conservation, which following city legislation enacted Earth Day
2009, authorizes the New York City Office of Environmental Remediation …
