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By Jessica Brandt
No state cleanup law explicitly mandates that energy efficiency, water usage, air
emissions, or the creation of waste be taken into consideration when selecting
a remedy. Considering that the goal of these cleanup laws was to create a
liability scheme and to clean up hazardous waste sites, it’s not surprising that other environmental considerations were not taken into
account when they were written.
Recently, those in the private and public sectors have started to rethink this
compartmentalized approach to cleanups. Many entities have put out white papers
and possible metrics on greener cleanups. The latest effort is lead by ASTM in
partnership with EPA, with a goal to develop a greener cleanup guide that would
take a wider range of environmental factors into account when selecting the
cleanup remedy while still protecting human health.
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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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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Rick Booth St. Louis, Mo.
National Leader for Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, and Legal Market Sector, Golder Associates Inc.
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Sadhu Johnston City of Chicago
Chief Environmental Officer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Mayor's Office
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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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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by VeruTEK
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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