Greening the House
The “Environmental Congressman” puts brownfields at the top of the Capital Hill agenda—the reason we’ve named him our Person of the Month.
Congressman
Sherwood Boehlert
If Congressman Sherwood
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S&P Releases CMSB Environmental Insurance Criteria
Standard & Poor’s released a comprehensive overview of its environmental insurance criteria for CMBS. Outlined in this criteria is how the rating agency views secured creditor environmental insurance which is increasingly being offered instead of traditional Phase I reports …
With the first hints of spring in the air, parents across the nation pack up the kids and head to America’s parks. Whether it’s a friendly game of Little League baseball at the local diamond in suburban Orlando, a hike through rugged terrain on a quiet county trail system in …
Al Gore
Brownfields have entered the debate in the
presidential campaign—Governor Bush presented …
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Laying the Tracks for Redevelopment
Marshall Williams drives CSX’s …
This is the first in a semi-regular Brownfield News series on waterfront redevelopment throughout the U.S. Future articles will explore shoreline projects, policies and methods in the South Atlantic states, the Gulf Coast, the West Coast, the Great Lakes, and riverside redevelopment. The next part of the series will …
Why Now?
It may seem a bit odd to be running a survey of waterfront redevelopment in Michigan with a story on East Coast waterfronts, but we thought this information would be useful to our readers.
The survey, conducted by EC&S in …
Federal News
U.S. Senators Lincoln
Chafee (R.-R.I.), Frank
Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Robert Smith (R-N.H.), and Max Baucus (D- Mont.)
introduced legislation aimed at reducing the legal and regulatory barriers
that stand in the way of brownfield redevelopment and which will provide
additional cleanup funding.
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This country’s record-setting economic boom isn’t just good news for investments on Wall Street —it’s also good news for investments in a healthier environment.
Today more than ever, a surging economy and strong environmental protection make complete sense as part of the same long-term strategy—a strategy that works to bring economic vitality back to our inner cities and preserve precious open space.
Brownfield legislation could do just these things. And, despite a …
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A Summit on Eastern European Brownfields
Ostrava, located in the eastern portion of the Czech Republic, near Poland and Slovakia, is a much more attractive town than some believe. Despite being characterized by the Lonely Planet guide as a Soviet throwback, it more like a Central European Pittsburgh, a steel town cleaning its air, land and water, finding some architectural treasures, and building some new ones.
In June, I had the pleasure …
In order to carry out
Chevron Pipeline Company’s plans to decommission and sell a portion
of a pipeline transfer station at a prime commercial location in Southern
California, a major remediation project was undertaken. Soil and
groundwater impacted with heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons had to be
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The Keystone in Pennsylvania
Denise Chamberlain puts her private-sector experience
and her vision to work to create a world-class brownfield program in the
state of Pennsylvania.
Denise Chamberlain
If you distilled …
All the talk about sprawl in recent years has missed the larger issue, which is how the loss of quality of life threatens future growth and prosperity. Sprawl is simply one form of development that has come to symbolize a negative form of growth, but other forms are available.
A …
Natural Disasters and Brownfields
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
“The term ‘act of God’ means an unanticipated grave natural disaster or other natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable, and irresistible character, the effects of which could not have been prevented or avoided by the exercise of due care or …
A Wave of Internet Companies Brings New Life to the
Bay Area’s Transportation Hub
Mayor Jerry Brown
It’s a sunny July
afternoon in downtown Oakland, a few blocks away from the waterfront.
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Ralph Nader
While issues such as education, health care, and
military preparedness dominate the presidential campaign, brownfields, and
related issues such as sprawl, rebuilding industry, job creation, and
environmental policy, are …
