The Franklin Bank Mine Reclamation Project, Ashley, Pa., was one of the 30-plus projects nominated for a Brownfield Renewal award in 2010. It didn’t bag a Renewal Award, but it did do this: Removed tons of mine waste and eliminated a source of mine drainage runoff that had infiltrated existing storm water systems and local streams and creeks. In the final analysis, the project team achieved its goal to complete the reclamation and then sell the property for residential redevelopment. …

The advanced single-stream facility makes recycling easier for area residents and businesses, and was constructed using sustainable building and design techniques, with LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. …

Co-chair of Connecticut's Brownfields Working Group and one of the leaders in the state for revising state environmental laws, O'Connor will bring both his environmental and economic redevelopment expertise to the firm in Hartford and Waterbury.   …

Newly available U.S. EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant helps enable multiple cleanup efforts in the city--cleanup efforts that are intended to spark the advent of affordable housing redevelopment in the future. …

A veteran attorney who practices in the area of environmental and land use consultation, permitting and litigation for Hartford, Conn.-based  Day Pitney LLP provides her insightful take on how brownfield practitioners can now look to Connecticut as another state that has crafted a progressive vision and working blueprint for local remediation and redevelopment efforts.    …

Now in its 13th year, the U.S.EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) was created in 1999 to ensure that at every Superfund site EPA and its partners have an effective process and the tools and information needed to return these sites to productive use. More than 550 cleaned-up Superfund sites have been returned to productive use or have reuses planned for them since the inception. More than 30,000 jobs at these sites have resulted in more than $1.3 billion in annual income for employees. Read how the team enabled the cleanup and mixed-use revitalization effort on the Wasatch Front. …

At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three separate parcels—a tour some time ago by a Wisconsin state legislator produced a brutally honest but necessary wake up call. The state official had toured the former canning facility a few years ago and remarked that it reminded him “of Europe.” Unfortunately, this wasn’t a compliment: The lawmaker wasn’t …

In ratifying House Bill No. 6526, and most specifically the underpinning stipulations behind Section 17, the Connecticut General Assembly has demonstrated that it's significantly stepping up its game in the brownfields arena by creating a new brownfields remediation and revitalization program. This program would be implemented by the Connecticut Dept. of Economic and Community Development (DECD) with the involvement of the Connecticut Dept. …

In September 2010, Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming was appointed by President Barack Obama as the U.S. EPA's Region 4 Regional Administrator/Southeast Region, in turn becoming the first African American to hold this position in Region 4. However, garnering this position is not the first time Keyes FlSeming has made history. Keyes Fleming took office as the DeKalb County (Ga.) District Attorney in January 2005, making her the first African-American and first woman …

As the push for combining renewable energy projects and brownfield redevelopment gathers steam, environmental insurance providers are working to offer coverage that meets the needs of both types of projects. “We’re actively looking at this market,” says Bob Hallenbeck, senior vice president with XL Insurance in Philadelphia. “We’re starting to see these renewable energy projects [on brownfields] come our way, and we’re glad. In many …

The “Healthfields” concept—as chronicled in our most recent cover story—demonstrates that Brownfields and other related redevelopment funding has become a powerful tool to implement environmental justice in underserved communities by replacing environmentally challenged properties with new vibrant opportunities to advance health and healthcare related end uses. …