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By Michael P. Turner
Environmental justice, public outcry, NIMBYs, and costly, protracted litigation,
are just some of the doomsday phrases that come to mind when developers,
corporations and elected officials consider the recent New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP) proposed public notification rules for
increasing public participation in site remediation cases.
Last summer, the media swarmed over the discovery of mercury contamination at a
day care center operating in a former thermometer manufacturing facility.
Parents of the day care center students were justifiably outraged, fingers were
pointed in all directions and state regulators were criticized for hiding the
truth from the public. The episode created a somewhat exaggerated view of a deficiency in the state’s oversight of environmentally challenged sites. These proposed public outreach
requirements are a direct result of that experience.
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Renewal Magazine
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
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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