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By Diana Bao
Environmental protection faced an unprecedented challenge in China last year, as this country of 1.3 billion people worked to balance
social economic development with its resource and environmental limitations. With international awareness a growing concern and Beijing readying itself to host the 2008 Summer
Olympics, advancing a culture of conversation was advocated by the 17th
National Conference of the Communist Party of China. China’s State Environmental Protection Administration and State Development & Reform Commission issued the 11th National Five-Year Plan for Environmental
Protection (the Plan) on Nov. 22, 2007.
This is the first time that the State Council has required provincial- and
ministerial-level governments to put greater emphasis on pollution control and
contamination treatment, and required local governments to include
environmental protection goals, task measures and demonstration projects in
their local economic and social development plans.
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Kathy Webb Greenville, S.C.
Principal, SynTerra Corp
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Rick Shean New Mexico Environment Dept., Albuquerque
Brownfields revolving loan fund coordinator and remediation oversight
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In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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A property located on a bank of the East River and in a densely developed residential and commercial area, had its work cut out for it from an environmental remediation standpoint. The mission was to clean up the land and ultimately make one puzzle piece to a larger urban revitalization project that would be redeveloped as a public library and park ranger station.
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