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By Sam Coleman
 When thousands of fans jam the American Airlines Center at Victory
Park, they probably don’t think about old power plants that have long since gone
dim. Likewise, visitors who shop and dine at the park aren’t likely to ponder
over the fate of long-forgotten landfills. The more than 100 Dallas elementary
school students who descended on Victory Park for the 2007 Earth Day celebration
on April 19 probably didn’t care about any of these historical footnotes either.
And that’s just fine with Richard Greene, who heads up the
Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Dallas. EPA worked with the
state, City of Dallas, Hillwood Development Corporation, and Hicks Holding for
more than a decade to transform Victory Park’s environmentally-challenged past
into a thriving, green future.
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