Aliquippa, Pa.
Speaking at a former steel mill that now is the site of a multi-million dollar wallboard plant, Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced a wide-ranging brownfield plan that is based on cleanup and remediation schemes in use in 35 states.
Bush criticized federal government’s handling of cleaning up brownfields in …
For over one hundred and fifty years, American cities and towns lit their homes, factories and boulevards with manufactured gas. Replaced by natural gas, manufactured gas was phased out by the mid-twentieth century and American utility companies, municipalities and private property owners now face the …
Illustrations by Charlie Smith
An article in the December 1999 issue of Brownfield News analyzed two new environmental insurance products, the cleanup cost cap and pollution liability policies, which have proven to be key factors in the success of some contaminated property transactions. The article explained that, to achieve this success, environmental insurance experts need to tailor the policy to the transaction and to the liability for which …
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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Al Gore
Brownfields have entered the debate in the
presidential campaign—Governor Bush presented …
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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 …
Resurrecting Brownfields in Bethlehem
Bethlehem Steel’s John Lushis has guided
the steel giant through the brownfield redevelopment process with
an eye on both integrity and the bottom line. At the same time he
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