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EPA News
If you’d like a copy of the 1999 Brownfields National Partnership Agenda Accomplishments Report go to www.epa.gov/brownfields/99a.htm. The report is a very useful compendium of …
Greenfields, Brownfields, Timfields On July 1, 1999, the U.S. Senate confirmed President
Clinton’s nomination of Timothy Fields Jr. as the USEPA Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER).
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When Brownfield News began examining brownfield policy and development on a city-by-city basis in 1998 it was obvious that there was no single, one-size-fits-all approach.
The history and economy of different cities led to different kinds of industrial development and consequently to the creation of different kinds of brownfields. In some …
As brownfield sites have become a priority topic for a
growing range of players — from city agencies to corporate leaders as
well as environmental activists — so has their treatment in state
legislatures and agencies across the US. States are taking an increasingly
active role in promoting the identification, …
Brownfields continue to be one of the most dynamic and complicated development issues that governments at all levels face. During 1999, the “state of the state” of brownfields continued to evolve and mature. State-level creativity and innovation in meeting a wide range of brownfield site assessment, cleanup, and financing needs has been the hallmark of this issue. Many viable — and alternative — approaches have been put …
Federal Resource Guide
While states and cities are in the forefront of brownfield development, the federal government has a large number of programs scattered through many agencies that deal with brownfield issues. As expected, the EPA´has taken the lead, but others, such as Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Defense and the Economic Development Administration also play important roles. Other agencies, such as the National …
Preventing urban sprawl is one way to place additional emphasis on brownfield sites for redevelopment. …
The site that was once home to a steel and coke processing facility will be transformed into a mixed-use redevelopment thanks to a sizable grant from regional utility
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